On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:54, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > On 6 Oct 2003, Florin Andrei wrote: > > > "this procedure forces blocks of a type that don't carry much > > information but are expensive to encode to be simply skipped" > > > > If they are skipped at encoding, with what do they get replaced when > > viewing? > > Oops - misunderstanding alert ;) It probably wasn't worded > exactly right.
Yeah :-) a rephrasing might help. > -E -10 is a conservative (middle range) setting. Values of 20 > or more _may_ artifact - your mileage will vary of course ;) Ok, so how will those artifacts look like? Essentially, when you replace that row of "almost zeros" with a row of zeroes only, the offending block becomes replaced with... uniform color/luma? Something close to its neighbours? Or is it more complicated than that? (i learned my lesson, i hope, and i don't expect the MPEG compression algo's to behave in an intuitive fashion) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users