On Sat, 11 May 2008, Bjorn Danielsson wrote: > A question: does this cropping reduce the bitrate, or increase the perceived > MPEG quality at the same bitrate? > > If not, isn't it better to just mask out those extra pixels during playback?
Not having tested this yet, I would presume this: Removing unwanted information out of the signal up-front (i.e. cropping out pieces of the video) can only help. That's information that would waste bandwidth otherwise so it's a good thing to get rid of it early. The result should be either slightly lower bandwidth actually used or a slight increase in overall picture quality. Either way that's a good thing. I don't know the exact effects of the cropping yet; I still have to test. -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
