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* Samples: [http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/SNOW/ http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/SNOW/]
* Samples: [http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/SNOW/ http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/SNOW/]


Snow is a video codec that originated in the [[FFmpeg]] project. It uses wavelet transforms, overlapping block-based motion compensation, and entropy coding that is not based on Huffman coding.
Snow is a lossy and lossless video codec, (originated in the [[FFmpeg]] project). Snow features wavelet transform, overlapping block-based motion-compensation, and entropy coding that is not based on Huffman coding. It shares with [[Dirac]] the choice of wavelets but it is quite simpler and with less optional features. At the present the ffmpeg implementation of Snow is partially optimized for x86, AMD64 and PPC and is only suited for high-end systems.
 


[[Category:Video Codecs]]
[[Category:Video Codecs]]

Revision as of 05:36, 3 May 2007

Snow is a lossy and lossless video codec, (originated in the FFmpeg project). Snow features wavelet transform, overlapping block-based motion-compensation, and entropy coding that is not based on Huffman coding. It shares with Dirac the choice of wavelets but it is quite simpler and with less optional features. At the present the ffmpeg implementation of Snow is partially optimized for x86, AMD64 and PPC and is only suited for high-end systems.