Lynne b69f65affa ffv1enc: add a minimal context model
Add a third context model, selected with -context 2, using only the two
nearest gradients coarsely quantized, for 13 contexts per plane.

Every slice starts from fresh probability states, and with many slices
there is too little data per slice for the larger context sets to adapt.
On a 6464x4852 16-bit RGB film scan coded with 1024 slices, this codes
87.99 MB per frame, against 90.29 MB with -context 0 and 100.79 MB with
-context 1, while needing 832 bytes of probability state per slice
instead of 23 KB and 324 KB. The same holds on 10-bit and 8-bit content
at high slice counts; with few slices, -context 0 remains best.

The table is stored in the extradata like the existing ones, so decoders
need no changes.
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FFmpeg README

FFmpeg is a collection of libraries and tools to process multimedia content such as audio, video, subtitles and related metadata.

Libraries

  • libavcodec provides implementation of a wider range of codecs.
  • libavformat implements streaming protocols, container formats and basic I/O access.
  • libavutil includes hashers, decompressors and miscellaneous utility functions.
  • libavfilter provides means to alter decoded audio and video through a directed graph of connected filters.
  • libavdevice provides an abstraction to access capture and playback devices.
  • libswresample implements audio mixing and resampling routines.
  • libswscale implements color conversion and scaling routines.

Tools

  • ffmpeg is a command line toolbox to manipulate, convert and stream multimedia content.
  • ffplay is a minimalistic multimedia player.
  • ffprobe is a simple analysis tool to inspect multimedia content.
  • Additional small tools such as aviocat, ismindex and qt-faststart.

Documentation

The offline documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

The online documentation is available in the main website and in the wiki.

Examples

Coding examples are available in the doc/examples directory.

License

FFmpeg codebase is mainly LGPL-licensed with optional components licensed under GPL. Please refer to the LICENSE file for detailed information.

Contributing

Patches should be submitted to the ffmpeg-devel mailing list using git format-patch or git send-email. Github pull requests should be avoided because they are not part of our review process and will be ignored.

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