similar to: NHW Project - some update

Hello Spork! As your answer is highly interesting, I wanted to share it with the Theora community (hope you don't mind). You're right I should format the code properly, write more separated functions, make it a library,... short, turn it into something professional... It's a lot of work, and I wanted to finish the codec (very high compression) first... But any help is very welcome!

You're welcome! On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 4:50 AM Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > 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

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

Hello, I don't have advanced on the NHW Project this past month, but I have definitely validated its characteristics and this new version. The NHW Codec preserves or enhances image neatness and sharpness, which translates that on good quality images the NHW Codec is globally better than HEVC, and on degraded (with blur, artifacts) images it is worse than HEVC because it lacks of precision. I

I think Apple is somehow "attached" to the MPEG group. They control the "pools" too. Your codec sounds great. Google could -- if they wanted to -- use it but they have Web^M and webP. Look to Asia. Asus has just launched a new phone. ?? On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 3:14 PM Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I don't have advanced on the NHW

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 Spork, Thank you very much for your great help! So ok, let's create a website for the NHW Project! Anyone who wants to help is very welcome! Do you want we start first with wix.com or rather from nearly scratch? I think from scratch would be better as we can really do what we want, but it will be a lot and lot more difficult to make... -I will send you a private email for the USB

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

> How about macOS? Can you give us a build. I don't have a macOS environment so I won't be able to give you a build.But it would be also great to have a macOS version.I think now that many bugs have been corrected, and that the NHW Project can compile ok under clang and run ok on macOS. If a forum member, that runs macOS, could give us a build and first let us know if the code is ok,

Great!!! Do not hesitate to let me know if it works ok for you! Cheers, Raphael 2018-04-16 22:59 GMT+02:00 David Willmore <davidwillmore at gmail.com>: > That's great news! I can finally try it! > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Raphael Canut <nhwcodec at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am pleased to announce that the NHW Project now works

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

---------- 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

Hello, For those interested, I have made a new version of NHW.This one has more precision and a little more neatness. I still find that NHW has a very good neatness -which I find visually more pleasant than AVIF and x265 for example-, and NHW is still extremely fast to encode/decode, faster than JPEG! There are still many improvements that can be done, first one is to adapt to any arbitrary

Hello, I am very slowly working on the NHW Project.I recently made a speed comparison with x265 and wanted to share it with you. On my processor Intel Core i5-6400, in average the NHW encoder (totally unoptimized) is x10 times faster to encode than x265 (png decoding time removed), in average 30ms vs 300ms for a 512x512 24bit color image, and in average the NHW decoder (totally unoptimized) is

Also, don't forget the option I gave you Ralph, where you can have access to one of my VPSes. We can create a subdomain for free, but if you want something like nhw.com, you'd have to register the domain name yourself, which wouldn't cost too much money.... Then I can help configure it to point to your page on my VPS. I'll host it all for free. You'll have your own user

Hello, I have improved the results of the NHW codec and so released a new version.This one has more neatness and more precision, and so is more interesting. -As usual, I don't have improved for now the entropy coding schemes, and so we can still save in average 2.5KB per .nhw compressed file, and even more with Chroma from Luma for example.- More at: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ Any

Hello, I have improved quality for -l4 and -l5 high compression settings.These settings are now really better and very competitive, I now prefer them compared to x265 (HEVC). Update at: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ I am also working on -l6 quality setting, I can simply increase quantization for it but I am not totally satisfied with this solution for now... Looking for more advanced processing

Hello, For those interested, I have added a new -l19 "extreme" compression quality setting to the NHW Project.This -l19 quality setting is really competitive with x265 (HEVC) on rather good quality images. An important remark: we can really save 2.5KB in average per .nhw compressed file as the entropy coding schemes are not optimal, especially at extreme compression.I have the fast

Hello, I have (slowly) worked these last couple weeks on the psychovisual model of NHW because some people reproach me that it washes details out... so I restored a little more details but this consumes some bits and actually it turned out that it also decreases neatness, and so when you compare at the same compression ratio, actually I find the current version visually better because it has a

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