Why people ignores common sense about video compression? Can anybody help -_-?

[DanilaZabiaka]

I made comparison in this thread about video compression

Shortly, video compression brokes details. In real world surfaces are not from regular colors. In digital and vector world, they are. It was not visible on Analog TV /CRT, but its actual on hi-res display

There is 'original' png lossless Mario 194KB
https://i.imgur.com/7bFBGz6.png

Gif uses dithering and with small size 63kb it looks more natural

https://i.imgur.com/JsMFhY9.gif

If you apply noise shader to original png (I also edit color levels - imho its very important, because 0-255 color range is too big and its not realistic), but size now is 653kb

https://i.imgur.com/3JepujL.png

What about VIDEO compression?

I converted noisy image png->mp4 and get that result
In png its 339KB, im mp4 its 11kb, but it has not noise
https://i.imgur.com/VqNMo17.png

You can restore this with shader also

https://i.imgur.com/ANQ2RI3.png

So, if it will be normal practice for players and will be included in GUI you can control noise level, black/white level, etc

It help cartoons to look more 'natural' like in analog time

[DanilaZabiaka]

I dont get why technogeeks fuck with renders, hdr, etc

Why you just cant reduce levels NOT 'BRIGHTNESS' - its just color offset, which destroys color. Digitally, intensivity of pixels is 0-255

'brighntess' algorithm works like. If you wanna make picture darker in dark room, for example -30, 255->225, but for example 20 turns to zero

Or if you increase brighntess + 30, you move black point to 30, but also 230 will be 255. Its just wtf, it does not have any sense

It looks normal if you increase black point in bright room and decrease in dark room, but players dont provide this out of box. MPC has 'levels' shader, but its broken, and it could be in GUI like sliders to control this for your taste

[FranceBB]

I don't really get your argument, to be honest.

I made comparison in this thread about video compression

Ok...

Shortly, video compression brokes details.

A lossy compression breaks details, ok, fair enough...

In real world surfaces are not from regular colors.

What do you mean? Light coming from a source goes through a Bayer filter which is the de-facto standard way of arranging color filters on a square grid of photosensors. Do you have a better idea?

There is 'original' png lossless Mario 194KB

Why are you using a synthetic picture made in Computer Graphic as an example? Didn't you just say "real world surfaces"? O_o


Gif uses dithering and with small size 63kb it looks more natural


Uh? I mean, leaving aside the fact that when you go from a certain bit depth to a lower bit depth you should always use some kind of dithering algorithm to avoid having a terribly bad banding, in the case of gif the problem is that it's a palette-based codec, so the colors used in an image have their RGB values defined in a palette table that can hold up to 256 entries, so if you don't use dithering of some sort, your image will probably look like crap.
Still, there have been way better codecs than gif for ages, from the evergreen JPEG with a reasonably high quantizer, to JPEG2000 which uses the Wavelet Transform and deals with the whole picture together to avoid blocks/macroblocks during the compression, to more recent codecs like HEIF (H.265 for images). Keep in mind that gif was born in 1987, what do you expect?


If you apply noise shader to original png size now is 653kb


So...? It's normal as .png is a lossless compression codec, so it has hard time compressing the image if you introduce noise which has no correlation, especially in the dark areas where you had a solid black with a lot of correlation between pixels before and no correlation now, that's why it's bigger than before.
I don't see the problem.


I also edit color levels - imho its very important, because 0-255 color range is too big and its not realistic


What? Why? Why did you touch levels? 0-255 bit too big? That's clearly a joke, right? That's 8bit Full Range (PC Range). It's kinda considered the very bare minimum these days as we're kinda used to get 10bit footages as 8bit footages are prone to have banding.


What about VIDEO compression?


What about it?


I converted noisy image png->mp4 and get that result


png is a codec, .mp4 is a container.
What's inside that container? Perhaps you mean H.264?


In png its 339KB, im mp4 its 11kb, but it has not noise


Uh... 'cause it has been averaged as you didn't have enough bitrate? Besides, luma and chroma are wrong in your (I supposed H.264) encoded image, so there was clearly a wrong flag set during the encode or a wrong level conversion.


You can restore this with shader also


Why would you want to do that? Why not spending enough bits on the encode to retain grain in the first place?


So, if it will be normal practice for players and will be included in GUI you can control noise level, black/white level, etc

It help cartoons to look more 'natural' like in analog time



Oh I see, you just want some dynamic grain added to your cartoons and you don't understand why they don't do it, right? Well, the answer is because it pretty much fucks up motion-compensation as the codec doesn't find any correlation between adjacent pixels in the same frame and it doesn't understand that a pixel is "moving" when it analyses the next frames, therefore it tends to put more Intra frame than needed and uses more bits than needed. You may however find a bit of static grain added to some cartoons to cover up things and give depth to surfaces, but that's STATIC grain.

If you like grain so much, you can add it yourself in real time while watching your favorite show. PotPlayer and Avisynth come into help as you can use a custom avisynth script like so:

LoadPlugin("C:\Encoding\plugins\AddGrainC.dll")
Import("C:\Encoding\plugins\addgrain.avs")
potplayer_source()
AddGrainC(var=5.0, uvar=0.0, constant=true)


You can increase "var" to increase the grain and you can set "constant" to "false" to make it dynamic grain.


I dont get why technogeeks fuck with renders, hdr, etc
Why you just cant reduce levels NOT 'BRIGHTNESS' - its just color offset, which destroys color. Digitally, intensivity of pixels is 0-255
'brighntess' algorithm works like. If you wanna make picture darker in dark room, for example -30, 255->225, but for example 20 turns to zero
Or if you increase brighntess + 30, you move black point to 30, but also 230 will be 255. Its just wtf, it does not have any sense
It looks normal if you increase black point in bright room and decrease in dark room, but players dont provide this out of box. MPC has 'levels' shader, but its broken, and it could be in GUI like sliders to control this for your taste


Nonsense... If you're watching TV, there's a fairly good chance that someone like me or other people spent HOURS grading something the way it is to make it look in a certain way, according to the producer and the art director using the tools we have available. 16-235 Limited TV Range 8bit for the old SDR contents, 64-940 Limited TV Range for the new 10bit footages, leaving aside HDR which uses special color curves and it's far more complicated than "adjusting levels".

As I said, you should NOT change levels, but still if you really want to you can do it in PotPlayer with a GUI since it seems you like GUIs...

https://i.imgur.com/2SNyzlm.png


I won't reply any further...

Good evening...

[DanilaZabiaka]

>A lossy compression breaks details, ok, fair enough...
Even NES had noise generator in sound processor, so its possible in codec to keep this, or restore it after
But now everybody crazy about noise removal and more juisy colors :D. Its synthetic

>Why are you using a synthetic picture made in Computer Graphic as an example? Didn't you just say "real world surfaces"? O_o
Because when synthetic images was in analog time, they was more realistic

>Why did you touch levels? 0-255 bit too big?
Where do you see LCD's 0-0-0 in real world or 255-255-255?

>What's inside that container? Perhaps you mean H.264?
Whatever))

>Oh I see, you just want some dynamic grain added to your cartoons and you don't understand why they don't do it, right? Well, the answer is because if pretty much fucks up motion-compensation as the codec doesn't find any correlation between adjacent pixels in the same frame and it doesn't understand that a pixel is "moving" when it analyses the next frames, therefore it tends to put more Intra frame than needed and uses more bits than needed. You may however find a bit of static grain added to some cartoons to cover up things and give depth to surfaces, but that's STATIC grain.

It could be on players side, even in browser - youtube videos are extremly compressed and its possible to use shaders

>If you like grain so much, you can add it yourself in real time while watching your favorite show. PotPlayer and Avisynth come into help as you can use a custom avisynth script like so:
I have shaders -_-

>As I said, you should NOT change levels, but still if you really want to you can do it in PotPlayer with a GUI since it seems you like GUIs...

It could be in control panel, pp's developer dont wanna make it or friend shaders with GUI

I wanna change levels for current situation. If its too bright and video is to dark, you can make move black point etc.
PotPlayer's dev suggest use 'brighness' but its just offset, its bullshit

[DanilaZabiaka]

Anyway. I wanna say that modern technologies compressors etc mission is to provide shit to user and force to make him eat it :)
Cartoons. movies, games

[videoh]

I wanna change levels for current situation. If its too bright and video is to dark, you can make move black point etc. Sure, everybody's rooms are lit differently. And the brightness varies over the day. So in HDR HLG you can adjust brightness as you say and get reasonable results. But HDR PQ has a problem with that (requires a reference background level but we don't all live in controlled laboratories).

You'll get along better here if you stop using swear words. It's a sign of low IQ, don't you think?

Best to you, Danila, my friend.

[DanilaZabiaka]

Man look at your room around or remember your offline day. You dont see 0-0-0 or 255-255-255, especially 'HDR'
But in movie your often see this. By the way, 0-255 range on LCD like and CRT is different. CRT has better colors
So you can calibrate LCD to CRT like, but nobody provide this and it reducec contrast


>It's a sign of low IQ, don't you think?
Vashe pohuj

[Groucho2004]

>It's a sign of low IQ, don't you think?
Vashe pohuj
Proving vh's point, that was to be expected.

You don't look like a pubescent brat but you sure act like one.