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by antninja 4740 days ago
I remember the BBC's Dirac codec uses wavelets. i don't know how it performs today, no one has adopted it.
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Yes, and the lesson from Dirac was that wavelets are cool, but they have some serious problems which must be overcome before they can be used in a complete codec.

The consensus was that intra-frame prediction is very important, and it's relatively easy to do intra-frame prediction if you can predict the content of one discrete block based on blocks that appeared earlier in the stream. It's hard to do intra-frame prediction with wavelets, since they don't divide into blocks.

It's been 10 years since the Apple/Pixar wavelet compression was announced. Whatever happened to that one?
Pixlet was an intraframe intermediate codec (a predecessor to ProRes), not a delivery codec.