cbloom rants

Oodle LZA has a new optimal parse. Hi! A few notes - Calling these parsers "optimal" is a historical convention. Early LZH...

A much belated attempt at summarizing the Daala PVQ coder. This post is in the wrong temporal order, it's sort of an introduction befor...

I wrote previously about Lagrange Rate control for video : 01-12-10 - Lagrange Rate Control Part 1 01-12-10 - Lagrange Rate Control Pa...

So, PVQ, as in "Pyramid VQ" is just a way of making a VQ codebook for a unit vector that has a certain probability model (each val...

First, I want to note that the PVQ Demo page has good links at the bottom with more details in them, worth reading. Also, the Main Da...