The front-end is written, now all of my effort has been on designing an efficient intermediate file format for ETC1 and a decent enough (but an improvable) encoder to go along with it. The idea is to prioritize the development of a powerful enough intermediate file format itself first, along with a "hopefully good enough" encoder. So I've been quickly trying a bunch of different RDO-driven (mostly back end) optimizations, to find some interesting ones to exploit later down the line. Because once the transcoder ships I can't change it for a long time, if ever.
The next step is to add one more major feature, port it to Linux, and ship it to our first customer.
The next step is to add one more major feature, port it to Linux, and ship it to our first customer.