[Ffmpeg-devel] Discrete levels on image quality

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 08:55:48AM +0000, jean.mab at bluewin.ch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to modify the quality compression of an image while using a 
> mpeg4 video compression.
> 
> Here is what I have done:
> 
> 
>     c->flags=CODEC_FLAG_QSCALE;// enable quality compression
> 
>    image->quality=100;
> 
> I found that it's possible to change the quality between  1 (good) 
> and FF_LAMBDA_MAX (bad) where FF_LAMBDA_MAX =256*128-1.
> 
> After some experiments, it seems that there are 29 steps between 
> these values making changing the quality. These steps are:

this greatly depends on the other options you use for encoding, try
to enable some high quality options like trellis quantization or
rate distorted macroblock decission or qprd or ...


[...]
> Does somebody explain me a little more about these steps?
> I thought that image->quality changes the quality factor of the 
> jpeg compression but it doesn't seem to be that.
> Does somebody know on which level does this quality act?

it changes the factor used in rate distortion optimization and directly
or indirectly QP depening on other parameters

[...]
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