<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>I don't have advanced on the NHW Project this past month, but I have definitely validated its characteristics and this new version.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The NHW Codec preserves or enhances image neatness and sharpness, which translates that on good quality images the NHW Codec is globally better than HEVC, and on degraded (with blur, artifacts) images it is worse than HEVC because it lacks of precision. I have made tests on 100 images from the Internet.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The NHW Project still lacks very high compression, and I think now I will inspire from HEVC, that is to say, I would like to strongly remove details and preserve the contours, edges. It is not that easy to code, and again any help would be very very welcome! Again if you can provide any help to the NHW Project, do not hesitate to show up, would be so much appreciated!!!</div><div><br></div><div>The NHW codec has a high speed, which makes it a good candidate for mobile, embedded devices.There are currently some exploration for a MotionJPEG replacement on low power processor (dual-core 240MHz Xtensa LX6) where MotionJPEG appears to be too heavyweight.
<br></div><div><br></div><div>With the recent updates, I think the NHW Project is still patent-free and royalty-free. And just the fact that it is royalty-free, should be worth the try.</div><div><br></div><div>So with this new version, I hope the NHW Project could attract a company that would like to sponsorize the project (to adapt the codec to any size of image for example).</div><div><br></div><div>Very quickly to finish, I have seen that on the Theora mailing list there are employees from big companies.This can be indiscreet and very impolite, but for example there are 2 employees from Apple who are on the Theora channel mailing list... Does Apple can be interested in such a codec as the NHW Project? If not, what does it lack to be of interest? Would you have some advice?</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks again!</div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Raphael<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>