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Fix configure hanging forever in iconv check using --charset=noconv

author	reimar
date	Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:38:20 +0000
parents	567c3d5da0ca
children	0f1b5b68af32

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6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	1
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	2 artifact types:
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	4 ringing
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	5 wave or noise like patterns around sharp edges
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	6 bad: sinc, lanczos (with high filter length)
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	7 acceptable: lanczos (with low filter length), cubic, spline
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	8 ok: area, (fast)blinear, gauss, point
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	9
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	10 blur
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	11 loss of detail / high frequency
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	12 bad: gauss with high variance
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	13 acceptable: (fast)bilinear, area
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	14 ok: others
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	15
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	16 aliasing (only downscale)
6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	17 straight lines look like staircases
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	18 areas of high detail look worse
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	19 regular patterns turn into a funny looking mess (moire patterns)
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	20 bad: fast bilinear, point, gauss with low variance
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	21 acceptable: area
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	22 ok: others
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	23
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	24 blocky (upscale only)
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	25 looks like the image is made of rectangular blocks like a mosaic
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	26 bad: point
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	27 ok: others
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	28
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	29 recommendations: (based upon my personal opinion many ppl might disagree ...)
6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	31
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	32 the recommended scalers for upscaling:
6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	33 fast_bilinear, point if speed is important
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	34 cubic, spline, lanczos if quality is important
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	35
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	36 the recommended scalers for downscaling:
6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	37 fast_bilinear, point if speed is important
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	38 gauss, bilinear if quality is important
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	39 cubic, spline, lanczos if a sharper picture is important
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	40
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	41 note: when encoding at a limited amount of bits (not constant quantizer)
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	42 then a slightly blurred input might look better after decoding than a slightly
567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	43 sharpened one, especially for lower bitrates
6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	44
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	45 sws numbers / names / artifact types
6685 ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	46 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	47 r ringing
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	48 b blurry
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	49 a aliasing (downscale only)
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	50 m mosaic (blocky) (upscale only)
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	51
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	52 -sws 0 fast bilinear bA
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	53 -sws 1 bilinear b
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	54 -sws 2 bicubic high sharpness r
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	55 low sharpness b
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	56 -sws 3 experimental ????
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	57 -sws 4 nearest neighbour AM
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	58 -sws 5 area ba
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	59 -sws 6 luma bicubic / chroma bilinear r
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	60 -sws 7 gauss low sharpness B
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	61 high sharpness AM
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	62 -sws 8 sinc R
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	63 -sws 9 lanczos long filter R
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	64 short filter b
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	65 -sws 10 bicubic spline r
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	66
ca8da0cc0cdf swscaler methods recommendation & artifact types michael parents: diff changeset	67 Notes:
16294 c43d55a452c8 Typo :) gpoirier parents: 6685 diff changeset	68 area upscale is identical to bilinear
16295 567c3d5da0ca More typos. One noticed by Nico. Added an empty line at the end to make syncmail happy gpoirier parents: 16294 diff changeset	69

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