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disqard on Sept 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Minih264 – Minimalistic, single-header library for...

Apologies for the OT question, but does anybody know why the foreman video clip is used as a standard test sequence for video encoding? Thanks in advance!

userbinator on Sept 23, 2018 [–]

Good question. It's certainly not as famous as Lena. Unfortunately I don't have an answer, but found others looking for one: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=171375

There is also this rather amusing "4k remake":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjA-YW71ZOg

disqard on Sept 23, 2018 | [–]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, and I got a good chuckle out of the 4k "remake" :)

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