4:1:1 vs. 4:2:0 on DV Formats. Which's Better?

D. Jiménez, D. Ruíz, and J.M. Menéndez (Spain)

Keywords

DV, Sampling, Chrominance, PSNR, Quality, VQEG.

Abstract

DV family has currently established as one of the two different compression families on the market in production and post-production for Standard Definition Television. DV use fixed bit-rate, 8 bit data, and intra frame coding techniques exclusively based on DCT Transform (Discrete Cosine Transform), VRL and Macroblock pre-shuffling prior to both two. There are two sampling structures coexisting in the market, 4:1:1 and 4:2:0. This document presents objective quantitative results from the emulation of DV-25 Mbs with both sampling solutions, the most significant aspects of DV algorithm and the behaviour of the codecs in response to VQEG 625@50 sequences. This article tries to tackle the problem of quality measures on DV-25 codecs, rather conditioned by the limited access to equipment and basically focused on qualitative analysis in previous works, providing more flexibility and quantitative comparisons.

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