4:4:4 Compression of Moving Pictures for Digital Cinema using the MPEG-2 Toolkit

Michael W. Bruns, James T. Whittlesey

The scope of compression techniques provided in the MPEG-2 toolkit is broad enough to meet today's picture quality expectations of digital cinema theatrical presentations with enhancements in rate control, 4:4:4 chroma format color space, and greater color precision than the profiles that are defined for television. This optimization for the unique requirements of digital cinema, while beyond currently defined MPEG profiles, is enabled by the wide range of the MPEG-2 toolkit and can be implemented using standard off-the-shelf silicon devices.

Published
2000-10
Content type
Original Research
DOI
10.5594/M00148
ISBN
978-1-61482-933-1