[x264-devel] I444 support

[Loren Merritt]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Neil Woodall wrote:

> I think the issue with respect to JPEG 2000 is that wavelet
> compression will work much better on natural scenes than a DCT based
> CODEC. [...] The study I saw showed a 3:1 difference in compression
> ratio, so even with double sending the data, H.264 would be more
> efficient than JPEG2000 at a given quality level.

Wait, are you arguing that H.264 compresses 3x as well as JPEG2000, or 
vice versa? Or are you arguing that MC-DWT codecs like Snow and Dirac 
could beat H.264 but JPEG2000 can't?

--Loren Merritt