Abcindex.GIF (2407 bytes)

QCIF (Quarter Common source Intermediate Format)
1/4 CIF, i.e., luminance information is coded at 144 lines and 176 pixels per line. The uncompressed bit rates for transmitting QCIF at 29.97 frames/sec is 9.115 Mbps.

Quantization matrix
A set of 64 8-bit values used by a dequantizer.

Quantize
A step in the process of converting an analog signal into a digital signal. Quantization measures a sample to determine a representative numerical value that is then encoded. The three steps in analog-to-digital conversion are sampling, quantizing, and encoding.

Quantized DCT coefficients
DCT coefficients before dequantization. A variable-length-coded representation of quantized DCT coefficients is stored as part of a compressed video bitstream.

Quantizer scale
A scale factor coded in a bitstream and used by the decoding process to scale the dequantization. See scaling.

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Abcindex.GIF (2407 bytes)