[vorbis-dev] video codec

[Ralph Giles]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Steve Underwood wrote:

> mini-DV camcorders are capable of quite excellent results. This may not
> be the ideal test material, though. Its just too clean. Many compression
> schemes which will do very well on this, may do rather poorly on more
> typcial somewhat noisy but uncompressed video. Use a mini-DV handycam in
> low light, and make sure there is plenty of noise to really exercise the
> codec.

One imagines running the source through a noise "filter" would be a better
way of exercising this. Likewise with filmic grain, scratches and dust.

An unrealated question: what's a good license for any test clips we
produce. BSD? Public Domain? "non-commercial use" seems popular elsewhere.

 -r

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