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Hello, I would like to discuss a little about the NHW codec and its state after nearly 5 years on the Xiph forums. I also know that if I would like to discuss I'd better go to the great Doom9 and Encode.ru forums but for now I find that my codec is too experimental for these professional forums: - the codec is only for fixed 512x512 size, just a test tool. - there is only mid compression -

Hello, So thanks to helpful forum feedbacks, I know now that I have to create a website for the NHW Project, make demo pages of the technology, and all that with good visual design.It won't be such easy for me... For example, I can easily supply a description, explanation of the different steps of the algorithm, I can supply images encoded at mid-compression with NHW, x265, WebP, JPEG,...

Hello, I have re-tested -l4 high compression setting and it's clear that it lacks of precision on degraded, rather blurred images. So I don't know if it is a good idea to base the other lower quality settings (-l5,-l6,...) on -l4 setting.I have tested the NHW codec against x265, x264, Daala, WebP, Rududu, DLI and it's clear that at high compression these very good codecs have more

I don't mind at all. I imagine there are more people like me out there who have been following your work, but haven't said anything. I agree that a series of pages explaining how things work may lead to more contributions. At the very least it would lead to more people being better educated on how wavelets work in image compression. But, this is your project, if you don't have the

Hello, In my last post, I seemed to say that there were no directional wavelet transforms that would give improvement to the NHW codec, but are directional wavelets an active research field today? I have also seen some recent patents on advanced and improved SPIHT, and I am a little surprised that there is no "up-to-date" state-of-the-art wavelet codec.Rududu in April 2008 was the last

Hi David! Many thanks for your very encouraging and kind feedback!!! (Hope you don't mind that I made your post public on the Theora channel). I try to be the more sincere as I can in my posts.Some people suggested me to make demo pages to explain how the codec works step by step, and I realize that it would be good, because certainly it will show that the NHW codec is not that complex and

Hello, These last 2 months I have been in contact with a very impressive and friendly engineer from Intel who has written an article on my codec and the 4-5 new codecs in general that competes with HEVC.He finally answered me that as Intel is a founding member of the Alliance for Open Media and chairs several MPEG WG around HEVC, they won't be able to put extra resources on the NHW Project.So

Hello, I've found some time to get back to the NHW Project.In fact a Xiph forum member told me that even if I will start a new job, he hopes that I will still continue to develop a little the NHW Project, on my spare time.I told him that I would furthermore spend my spare time on the NHW Project if a community around the project could emerge... and he told me that certainly the best way for

Hello, I would like to thank very much the Theora channel community for their support and help!!! And even recently a Theora channel member proposed me to freely host on his server the NHW Project website, to present the codec on the embedded processors, MCU forums that he knows well, another member forked my GitHub repository!!! Really thank you very much!!! It makes me think that maybe the NHW

Hello, I don't have advanced on the NHW codec, but now, as a lot of people, I am following the AOMedia AV1 codec.Just a (late) update of my previous post, there won't be problem in AOM AV1 with the CABAC scheme, as the codec will use Daala's multi-symbol entropy coder and/or ANS.That's great! I have even read on the wiki page, that AV1 will use Daala's PVQ as quantization

Hello Ken, Many thanks for your reply! Yes, I very need to adapt the NHW codec to any image size.But actually it is the least interesting part, I don't think that it is that difficult (compared to creating high compression settings) but it is very boring, annoying... Really not the part that I prefer... For now, as I am jobless, my aim is to have "pleasure" with the NHW Project and

Hello Spork, > If you want though, when I find some time, I can work on supporting a better command line parsing. Yes that would be great as my command line parsing is not good at all. > Does your codec compile under Linux? If not, that's something I can try to work on as well. I never tested my codec under Linux )-:, and so it would be also great to compile it under Linux.I think

Hello, Ok that's right HEVC and AOM AV1 are better than the NHW codec, even at mid compression.I only tested my codec with quite neat images, hence the good results, but on more blurred, more compressed images, HEVC and AOM AV1 are definitely better, they are also exceptionnal at high compression. So, yes that's right, the NHW codec has very little chance to penetrate the market, it is

Hello, I forgot in my last reply that my DWT implementation can be speed up, for example I'm doing for now: for (;_X1<_E_;_X1++,_RES+=2) //dilatation { _RES[0]=_X1[0]<<3; _RES[1]=(_X1[1]+_X1[0])<<2; } then for (;_X2<_E_;_X2++,_RES+=2) //details { _RES[0]-=(_X2[1]+_X2[0])<<1; _RES[1]+=6*_X2[1]-_X2[2]-_X2[0];

Hi Silvia, Thank you very much for your answer! Your opinion is much appreciated. Your advice is wisdom, but very quickly to rectify or precise my situation, I am finishing a 2-year job contract and there will maybe be a "vacation" period before the next contract (if I find one), so I would like to invest this time for the NHW Project, but that's right that image/video compression,

Hello all, Just a quick message for those interested in the NHW Project.I realize that I have too little time to spend on the project currently and I feel that this year will be very important after 6-7 years for its success or not.I already had some few replies from some companies (and a major one), and they can not spend some time, spend some engineers on my work because there is no

Hello all, It's me again.Just a quick message to tell that I finally do not agree that HEVC (don't have tested AOM AV1 for now) is better than the NHW codec at mid compression. Last night, I dowloaded 30 images of Star Wars Rogue One on the web and I made another comparison with x265 (HEVC) for mid compression (-l2 to h2 settings for the NHW codec). Visually, I prefer the results of NHW

Hello, Just a quick message to correct what I have said in my previous post.It finally seems not that easy to code small wavelet coefficients to have a good precision, and SPIHT is certainly a very good algorithm for that, -and I know there are SPIHT experts that can make very good SPIHT-based codecs-.I have chosen a new and different approach, the multistage residual coding, so I will try to

Hello Dave, Thank you very much for your help! Cheers, Raphael 2018-07-10 9:39 GMT+02:00 Dave Johnson Games <davefilms.us at gmail.com>: > Let me do some looking. > > On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 4:55 PM Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Dave! >> >> Thank you very much for your answer! >> >> You're right.I have thought

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> Date: 2017-11-30 14:22 GMT+01:00 Subject: Re: [theora] NHW Project - speed comparison with x265 To: fboehm <fboehm at aon.at> Hi Franz, Many thanks for your answer!!! > I appreciate your enthusiastic work on such a complex project like writing a video codec Yes, for now the NHW codec is more an