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Encoding can work however you like. The important thing is that the output complies with the standard. It's nice to have a reference implementation, but it's
by 01100011 8y ago
Encoding can work however you like. The important thing is that the output complies with the standard.
It's nice to have a reference implementation, but it's not like that's the only way it can be done.
- userbinator 8y agoThe important thing is that the output complies with the standard. That's a good point --- you can write an H.264 encoder that doesn't compress at all, and as expected, the amount of code to do so is quite small: https://cardinalpeak.com/blog/worlds-smallest-h-264-encoder/ https://cardinalpeak.com/blog/worlds-smallest-h-264-encoder/ However, minih264 may currently be the smallest encoder that does compress.