title: Very low bitrate video codec?
body: <p>I was wondering if there are any video codecs out there that are suited for extremely low bitrates, especially for webcam input?</p>
  
  <p>Throwing around some numbers: let's say a 160x120 stream that will result around 32kbps or so.</p>
  
  <p>Quality will be poor, probably. However, the video should be "understandable", and the frame rate should be sufficient for movement perception.</p>
  
  <p>Googling it out, I could only find abstracts. Are there any concrete codecs? Any video examples? And ultimately, any usable libraries?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Thanks for the answers. I tried to encode a 160x120 pre-recorded clip with H264 targeting 32kbps, and I must admit that the results were preety good.</p>
  
  <p>The quality was actually susprisingly good, which makes me wonder wether this can be done in real time, and without requiring high cpu load?</p>
  
  <p>Take conferencing for an example, where you have to encode one stream, while decoding multiple streams, all in real time.</p>