[FFmpeg-devel] a64 encoder 7th round

[Bitbreaker/METALVOTZE]

> I always try to hmm convince patch authors to contribute as much usefull
> code as possible :)
> swscale still does ordered dither, i know other variants look much
> better as single images (i tried it) but i had some problems with videos
> on TFTs, also my code was not clean and just doing grayscale, no color, not
> considering gamma ...
>   
Pfew. I am not sure if i am the right man for that. Useful code will be 
submitted, more modes, a64 container, isn't that enough? ;-)
> gamma is very important when dithering with few colors no matter if ordered
> or others, the reason is
> a 50/50 mix of black and white pixels just doesnt produce a shade similar
> to 50% gray but dither code generally assumes it does
>   
i mix black with dark gray, dark grey with middle gray and so on at 
least. Better than black/white, isn't it?
>> However digonally might work out, producing lines horizontally is no 
>> option as well.
>>     
>
> you can even decide pixel values in some random order
>
> or look at dither as an optimization problem, that is to choose
> pixels(x,y) so that a lowpassed pixels image is most similar to
> the input picture.
> with this you can just pick 2x2 pixel cells and bruteforce try to set
> them to all values and pick the best and keep doing that until no
> change in any cell leads to an improvment.
>   
Hmm, i should dig out my old code again, maybe it does already better 
results. Coz the good speed will then be gone anyway :-) I'll put some 
of those things on a list named: Try somewhen when the important stuff 
is done.


> first, thank you for this explanation, could you put this on the multimedia
> wiki? we collect information about all codecs there ...
>   
I'll do so, but need an account first. No idea if i can just register 
one, am a bit in a hurry.Will also add information about the other 
formats that might help as well.

> now a few questions, i hope iam not too annoying
> the low nibble is either 15 or 8 if i did RTFS correctly
> do you have 64 byte left for a LUT?
> if so you can do some code equivalent to
>
> x= read_net();
> dst[0]=lut[x  ];
> dst[1]=lut[x+1];
> dst[2]=lut[x+2];
> dst[3]=lut[x+3];
> x= read_net();
> dst[4]=lut[x  ];
> dst[5]=lut[x+1];
> dst[6]=lut[x+2];
> dst[7]=lut[x+3];
> ...
>
>   
Gotta see tomorrow if that works...

> this of course can also be done as loop and using that y register, in that
> respect do you maybe have a link to docs listing the number of cycles per
> instruction?
>   
For example here: http://www.metalvotze.de/content/c64_internal4.php

Kindest regards,

Toby