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398:(e.g. analog or digital, standard def. or high def., etc.), and type of equipment available to the user, which is often related to budget constraints – as highest quality digital video equipment, and storage space, may be expensive. Effectively this means that any transcoding will involve some cumulative image loss, and hence the most practical solution insofar as minimizing loss of quality is for the original recording to be deemed the master copy, and for desired subsequent transcoded versions, which will often be in a different format and smaller file size, to be transcoded only from that master copy. 47: 373:
options, which are either completely missing or very limited in PCM formats. These lossless formats can be transcoded to PCM formats or transcoded directly from one lossless format to another lossless format, without any loss in quality. They can be transcoded into a lossy format, but these copies
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is created. When sending the image to another phone, this high resolution image might be transcoded to a lower resolution image with fewer colors in order to better fit the target device's screen size and color limitations. This size and color reduction improves the user experience on the target
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that would be created if they were not, and because the huge storage demands being too cumbersome for the user otherwise. However, the amount of compression used at the recording stage can be highly variable, and is dependent on a number of factors, including the quality of images being recorded
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or uncompressed format, and then edit a copy of that master version, only converting to lossy formats if smaller file sized images are needed for final distribution. As with audio, transcoding from lossy format to another format of any type will result in a loss of quality.
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Real-time transcoding in a many-to-many way (any input format to any output format) is becoming a necessity to provide true search capability for any multimedia content on any mobile device, with over 500 million videos on the web and a plethora of mobile devices.
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and their capabilities. This diversity requires an intermediate state of content adaptation in order to make sure that the source content will adequately function on the target device to which it is sent.
267:, and make all edits on that copy, rather than repeatedly re-encoding it. Similarly, if encoding to a lossy format is required, it should be deferred until the data is finalised, e.g. after mastering. 489:, but onto a thin, dielectric target; the camera part reads the deposited charge pattern at a different scan rate from the back side of this target. The setup could also be used as a 178:) does not support the format or has limited storage capacity that mandates a reduced file size, or to convert incompatible or obsolete data to a better-supported or modern format. 212:; however, transcoding can be lossless if the output is either losslessly compressed or uncompressed. The process of transcoding into a lossy format introduces varying degrees of 597: 640: 35: 201:
lossless format has better compression performance than other lossless coding technologies, and in many cases, JPEG2000 can compress images to half-size.
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will then not be able to be transcoded into another format of any kind (PCM, lossless, or lossy) without a subsequent loss of quality.
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In the analog video world, transcoding can be performed just while files are being searched, as well as for presentation. For example,
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can reduce the file size significantly while keeping the quality about the same. This is possible because most consumer cameras are
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is a process similar to transcoding in which files are coded to a lower bitrate without changing video formats; this can include
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Before the advent of semiconductors and integrated circuits, realtime resolution and frame rate transcoding between different
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Transcoding is a two-step process in which the original data is decoded to an intermediate uncompressed format (e.g.,
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are cumulative, so transcoding causes a progressive loss of quality with each successive generation, known as
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Although transcoding can be found in many areas of content adaptation, it is commonly used in the area of
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device, and is sometimes the only way for content to be sent between different mobile devices.
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If one wishes to edit data in a compressed format (for instance, perform image editing on a
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image), one will generally decode it, edit it, then re-encode it. This re-encoding causes
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A frequency-domain video transcoder for dynamic bit-rate reduction of MPEG-2 bit streams
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by video files. The most common operation in this application is the transcoding of
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content adaptation. In this case, transcoding is a must, due to the diversity of
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One of the most popular technologies in which transcoding is used is the
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For users wanting to be able to re-encode audio into any format, and for
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The key drawback of transcoding in lossy formats is decreased quality.
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bitrate peeling as of 2008, the quality is inferior to re-encoding.
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Five Steps for Building Transcoding into Your Workflow whitepaper
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H.264/MPEG-4 AVC products and implementations § Transcoding
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Direct digital-to-digital conversion of one encoding to another
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IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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for video), which is then encoded into the target format.
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Digital Video Transcoding for Transmission and Storage
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