Comparison of MPEG-2 and M-JPEG Video Coding at Low Bit Rates

In this paper a comparative analysis of MPEG-2 and Motion-JPEG (M-JPEG) video coding is given. Particularly, the performance of these methods is compared via experiments. At first, the algorithmic differences are discussed. Experimental results are shown for various video sources with different image sizes and frame rates. The bit rate were ranging from 1 Mbits to 8 Mbits/s. The experimental results showed, that MPEG-2 I-only and IP encoding achieve higher picture quality at the same bit rate or equivalent picture quality at a lower bit rate than M-JPEG. This quantitative comparison as well as the subjective picture quality evaluation can trigger the use of MPEG-2 video coding instead of M-JPEG at low bit rates.

Published

1997-11

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00251

ISBN

978-1-61482-928-7