Re: New video codec to use preliminary UCI and preliminary MCF, only for testing ??

Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:29:22 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mcf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
En réponse à ChristianHJW <[email protected]>:

> "Steve Lhomme" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:[email protected]...
> > > What do you think ??
> >
> > I don't think the current libmcf supports B frames and ordering. So
> I
> wonder if
> > it would be possible to use it. Dunno about the status of libuci.
> 
> Uh ? Why did you move the thread to mcf-devel Steve ? Was this by
> purpose or
> coincidentally ? I dont think this question is directly related to the
> development of MCF, but more like '.....do we want to do it, and can
> we
> offer him something working based on what we have....' , therefore i
> chose
> mcf-general.

Accidentally. A bad habit ;)

> [quote]In terms of intraframe, it's supertemporal. It uses no motion
> encoding, vector motion prediction is a flawed system unsuited to the
> nature
> of video data. (yeah yeah I know, it sounds like a broken reccord but
> I
> really dislike mpeg) =)
> Actually this isn't quite right but it's hard to explain how it
> doesn't
> really use frames at all. I'm a big fan of analog signals. Hence this
> system
> would work with any analog signal (such as audio, hint hint). If they
> invent
> a device that can digitize and reproduce smell, I could compress the
> data.
> I liked your idea, but since there's no real analogy between my system
> and
> the motion system in mpeg, I don't really have a way to use it. It's a
> neat
> idea though. [/quote]
> 
> But as i understand it he has to load more than one frame into buffer (
> read
> about his problems with memory allocation ) for encoding, this makes
> VfW
> impossible IMHO. Talking about MCF, he simply would like to put the
> frames
> into the container in a certain order i guess. libmcf should be capable
> of
> supporting this ?

Well, if there's no frame, there's no way he could put them in MCF. If they are
all I frames, that will work.


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