[Ffmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-devel-old] Verifying losslessness

[Peter Cech]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:47:54AM -0600, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I am prototyping a new lossless video codec. Are there any 
> recommendations for how I should validate the losslessness of the codec? 
> I could write out each of the original frames of a file as individual 
> raw files, encode and decode with the new codec, and diff each decoded 
> frame with the original frames. That seems tedious. And storage-intensive.

What about named pipes? Something like following set of commands:

mkfifo source1
mkfifo source2
mkfifo encoded
mkfifo decoded
cat sourcefile | tee source1 > source2 &
encode source1 encoded &
decode encoded decoded &
diff source2 decoded

Then you can remove all four fifo or reuse them for next trial.

Regards,
Peter Cech