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by the_only_law 1602 days ago
Not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but this popped up a while back: https://blog.tempus-ex.com/hello-video-codec/
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This is vaguely okay but makes the common mistake of overemphasizing that codecs use an IDCT. That's just a component of intra-prediction, it isn't necessarily important or used, and in H.264+ it isn't even a real IDCT when it is used. It's a simpler transform that isn't mathematically accurate but is bit-exact, which is more important.
This is perfect! Thank you!