[Ffmpeg-devel] VP3/Theora Perfection

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 17 May 2005 18:52, Mike Melanson wrote:
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> >>>	Why? Dequantization is a parallelizable operation that can be optimized
> >>>with SIMD instructions. That is why it is done at the same time as the
> >>>optimized IDCTs.
> >>
> >>i prefer to multiply 2 elements without SIMD over multiplying 64 with
> >> SIMD
> >>
> > :)
>
> 	Okay, so I'm really confused now. There are 64 DCT coefficients. All 64
> need to be dequantized. That means you have to do 64 multiplications.
> Where do you come up with the "multiply 2 elements", smart guy(s)? Are
> you talking about optimizations like checking for 0-value coeffs during
> the decode process and skipping the mult.?

well, you dont have to check for 0 during decode, as zeros are already handled 
differntly, its just fetching the right value from the quantization table and 
doing the dequant

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-- 
Michael