Re: [rtcweb] Performance of H.264...

Stephan Wenger <stewe@stewe.org> Wed, 20 November 2013 19:40 UTC

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From: Bernard Aboba <bernard_aboba@hotmail.com<mailto:bernard_aboba@hotmail.com>>
Date: Wednesday, 20 November, 2013 at 14:23
To: Maik Merten <maikmerten@googlemail.com<mailto:maikmerten@googlemail.com>>, "rtcweb@ietf.org<mailto:rtcweb@ietf.org>" <rtcweb@ietf.org<mailto:rtcweb@ietf.org>>
Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Performance of H.264...

>> There's much to be said about PSNR as means for comparing image quality.

>[BA] Section III A states that the comparison really doesn't relate to interactive/low delay uses (e.g. use of B frames, etc.) which is what we'd care about on this mailing list.   But it's the first study of its kind so it seemed worth posting a link to (in hopes that someone else might have a link to something more relevant).

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find...

See here: https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=A6F8E452A49F023D!769&app=WordPdf&authkey=!AP15CciU4zPcTHc

This paper also compares codec operation points relevant for entertainment, and does not focus on video conferencing (without I pictures).  However, since it contains data for both random access GOP structures and pure intra, one could extrapolate pure predicted picture performance and arrive some conclusion (which is left as an exercise for the reader :-)
Note that the use of B pictures is uncorrelated with the use in low delay environments, and has been since at least 2003.  (In H.264 and later standards, both predictors of B pictures can point to the past.)  The use of B pictures nowadays is almost exclusively a complexity question.

Stephan