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15 years ago

Video Compression

Hi All, I'm doing a University project and my biggest hurdle is Video Compression. I have a Terasic D5M camera which i want to send its video over ethernet. I'm working on the ethernet ...
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15 years ago

Check out opencores.org. There is a project under the 'Video Controller' tab and than there are some decoders as well as a project labeled 'Video Compression System'. That has MPEG-2,4 and part 10 (H.264) with HDL code. In my opinion I suggest to use YUV output before encoding. This has several advantages. Motion estimation is done on Y, UV can be subsampled further and if necessary (bitrate limits) dropped off.