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In-Depth Look At Video Codecs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the jaggies-and-artifacts dept.

johnsee writes "Atomicmpc has an incredibly in- depth look at a wide range of video codecs. It looks not only at their inner workings, but also shows the quality produced by each at a variety of settings and situations."

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  1. Re:In this case, don't RTFA by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 5, Interesting

    God, I've just read his description of DCT. It's even worse. He seems to think that DCT consists of "dividing numbers by two" (he doesn't even use the word "quantization", that probably has too many syllables). And people complain about Wikipedia...

    Time to shamelessly plug my articles about compression. Some parts are simplified (they're aimed at "end users") but, compared to this Atomic article, anything is flawless:

    Lossless (data, image, audio)
    http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/article s/viewarticle.jsp?id=106309

    Lossy + Hybrid (image, audio)
    http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/article s/viewarticle.jsp?id=109739

    Video (lossless, lossy)
    http://digitalproducer.digitalmedianet.com/article s/viewarticle.jsp?id=125089