[FFmpeg-devel] Another possible block-matching metric?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

This should be relatively easy to implement.

I have been toying with x264 lately and found that SSIM can do a
pretty good job as a block-matching metric if scaled appropriately.
(1/(1-SSIM))*16000 seems to do pretty well, and gives similar results
to SATD (Hadamard) in terms of PSNR and SSIM in the resulting encode
and in some cases outperforms SATD by a small bit.  Adding SSIM as a
block-matching metric to FFMPEG would be a nice encoding option;
perhaps it will be just as effective for MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 ASP as it
is for MPEG-4 AVC.  And since there's already assembly for it, it
shouldn't need much coding at all.

--Dark Shikari