I am new to this group and I need to know how half pixel interpolarion is done at the boundaries.....Can any one plz help me regarding this..... Thanks & regards, Mahesh On 1/17/07, Guillaume Poirier wrote: > > Hi Måns, > > Måns Rullgård wrote: > > Guillaume Poirier writes: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>List, Peter wrote: > >> > >>>Hello everyone, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>I am new to this group although experienced with H.264. I tried to use > >>>the x264 encoder to prepare sequences for an error-resilience test. > >>> > >>>I was very surprised, when I discovered, that x264 CAN NOT produce > >>>slices! Slices are the basic tool to cope with packet-losses over > >>>IP-based networks (without retransmission), and in fact can make a huge > >>>difference for subjective quality, in particular at high loss-rates. > >> > >>Very basic indeed. _I_ think it's better to add more advanced parity > >>(which allow the errors to be recovered) infos somewhere in the > >>transport layer stream than using slices. > > > > > > Using error correcting coding at the transmission layer substantially > > increases the bitrate. With slices a transmission error will ruin the > > rest of the slice, while other slices still decode properly. > > Sometimes a little damage here and there is acceptable if it means you > > can keep the bitrate down. Besides, you don't always have control > > over the transmission encoding. > > > > Put another way, slices limit the scope of the damage caused by > > whatever transmission errors make it through your error correction > > layers. > > > > Anyone who has watched digital TV should appreciate the usefulness of > > slices. > > Mmmm. I guess I did not understand what "error concealment" meant. My > dictionary translates it to "dissimulation des erreurs" which more or > less translates back in English as "error hiding", which by my book > means that if an error occurs, it doesn't show, up to a certain amount > of errors you can't recover. > > As far as I understand, slices don't allow that, that's why I thought > that better error correction blocks was the solution. > > But now that I understand what "error concealment" means, and I see > that slices seem like the right tool for that job. > > Sorry for the trouble. I'm learning smth new every day :-) > > > >>>Did I miss something here, or is it true that x264 can only produce 1 > >>>slice per frame??? > >> > >>It used until r609 to but it was replaced by a much better and faster > >>multi-threaded encoding mode. > > > > > > Multithreaded encoding and slices are really distinct features. > > Slices may be desired, as the OP says, with or without multithreading. > > Loren, Out of curiosity, did you remove sliced encoding support > because it was too deeply "interleaved" with multi-threaded support, > so your new multi-threaded encoding mode had to make sliced encoding > go away? Or are there other reasons? > > Guillaume > > -- > This is the x264-devel mailing-list > To unsubscribe, go to: http://developers.videolan.org/lists.html > >