I guess everybody else has reacted on his post about MPEG crisis so I can do that as well. So, $postname—most people just don’t understand his outlook. If you interpret his words from his point of view it’s clear he’s right for most of the things.
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Archive for February, 2018
Chiariglione Is Right
Wednesday, February 7th, 2018ClearVideo: Somewhat Working!
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018So I’ve finally written a decoder for ClearVideo in NihAV and it works semi-decently.
Here’s a twentieth frame of basketball.avi from the usual sample repository. Only the first frame was intra-frame, the rest are coded with just the transforms (aka “copy block from elsewhere and change its brightness level if needed too”).
As you can see there are still serious glitches in decoding, especially on bottom and right edges but it’s moving scene and most of it is still good. And the standard “talking head” sample from the same place decodes perfectly. And RealMedia sample is decoded acceptably too.
Many samples are decoded quite fine and it’s amazing how such simple method (it does not code residue unlike other video codecs with interframes!) still achieves good results at reasonable (for that time) bitrate.
Hopefully there are not so many bugs in my implementation to fix so I can finally move to RealVideo 3 and 4. And then probably to audio codecs before RealVideo 6 (aka RealMedia HD) because it needs REing work for details (and maybe wider acceptance). So much stuff to procrastinate!
Update: I did MV clipping wrong, now it works just fine except for some rare glitches in one RealMedia file.