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by disqard 2827 days ago
Apologies for the OT question, but does anybody know why the foreman video clip is used as a standard test sequence for video encoding? Thanks in advance!
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userbinator 2827 days ago
Good question. It's certainly not as famous as Lena. Unfortunately I don't have an answer, but found others looking for one: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=171375

There is also this rather amusing "4k remake":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjA-YW71ZOg

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disqard 2827 days ago
Thanks for taking the time to reply, and I got a good chuckle out of the 4k "remake" :)
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