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- From: ruben@europa.ee.uts.edu.au (Ruben Gonzalez)
- Subject: Re: MPEG encoding time
- Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 01:54:10 GMT
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- In article <8LE5E6I@zelator.in-berlin.de>, leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
- |> In <l6ulkqINNjbu@calvin.usc.edu> alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves) writes:
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- |> >Does anyone with experience in MPEG have a feeling for how long it takes
- |> >to encode full-motion, full-screen video, with enough compression to
- |> >play off a CD-ROM (c. 150k/sec)? I have heard that it would take even
- |> [...]
- |>
- |> Hi ,
- |> I'm using the Xing Technology MPEG encoder, which works from 320x240
- |> TGA frames .
- |> It takes 1.5 second per frame to encode to a MPEG-file on a
- |> 486 PC (33Mhz) !
- |> I think this is quite fast and all is done by software only !
- |>
- |> Best regards Stefan Hartmann.
- |> email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de
- |>
- |>
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- This just seems too incredible to me. I can not possibly see how anybody
- can DCT transform a 320x240 frame at that speed on a 486.
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- Furthermore I can't see how you could do the motion compensation for an entire frame
- at that speed. The Motion compensation requires an extensive search around each 8x8
- pixel block in the image, which amounts to millions of searches just for a single frame.
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- Another problem which has me confused is that MPEG is not defined for Colourmap
- based images which the Xing encoder must use. (you can't do decent real-time colour
- quantisation at run time, the images must be pre-quantised, However DCTs do not work
- very well with colourmapped images)
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- I find it hard to believe that the Xing encoder is really MPEG as per the standard.
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- Ruben.
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