Encoding VP6?
 

Does anyone know: Is there any FOSS software out there that can encode VP6? Evidently, VLC can decode it, but not encode it.

Background: I'm currently using VLC to pull v4l camera output and stream it to Wowza MS2 as h.264, which in turn streams it to the web in RTP. (I'm told) I need to switch to VP6 in order to deal with a video lag problem I am experiencing. The only Linux compatible software I've been able to find on Google that encodes VP6 is On2 Flix, which is proprietary and $200.

Very very unlikely. A quick read of the Wikipedia page shows that On2 has been highly protective of their codec, and while a couple of projects have put out decoders (and received flak from On2 for it), nobody has dared put out an encoder. If by some chance any do exist, they are illegal and buried deep underground.

Of course, now that Google has bought them out and released VP8 open source, there's a chance that it might see the light of day in the near future.

There are some legal issues involved, but mencoder can encode to vp6 but it seems slightly different from some videos that I've found encoded using other methods

[code]mencoder infile -ovc vfw -xvfwopts codec=vp6vfw.dll -oac mp3lame -o outfile.flv