Reviews Tips Tutorials Drivers Browse by subject . A free service rounding up the week's news, articles, tips and reviews. Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. Sassen Image Quality High contrast shots can best demonstrate whether or not a codec introduces artifacts in the captured video stream.
Some high contrast shots cause problems for software codecs.
In software, maintaining color fidelity of such shots can cause the CPU to choke and drop frames. Unlike a software codec, the Marvel's hardware codec captures high contrast shots at full frame rate, at full resolution, with exceptionally precise, full-color fidelity. High contrast shots are also subject to compression artifacts. When video is compressed by a software codec these artifacts appear as garbled and noisy patches along contours in the image, making video appear fuzzy and disjointed. Video with rich colors, such as cartoons, will help determine the color reproduction capabilities of the codec.