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Intra-refresh artefact

Definition

The elevated count of intra-coded macroblocks or CTUs at frame positions that correspond to the I-frame interval of a previous encoding generation. This artefact persists through re-encoding because the inter-prediction residuals at those positions are larger, causing the second encoder to prefer intra-coding.

Related terms

DCT coefficient histogram
A histogram of the discrete cosine transform coefficients across macroblocks or coding units in a frame or clip. After a single encode,...
Double compression
The condition in which a video has been encoded at least twice through a lossy codec. The term is also used loosely...
Group of Pictures (GOP)
The periodic structure of I-frames, P-frames, and B-frames in a compressed video stream. Each encoding generation imposes its own GOP structure. When...
Macroblock (MB) / Coding Tree Unit (CTU)
The basic spatial coding unit: 16x16 pixels in H.264 (macroblock) and up to 64x64 pixels in H.265 (CTU). Each unit is classified...
Quantisation parameter (QP)
A per-block or per-slice value that controls the coarseness of the DCT coefficient rounding step in H.264 and H.265. Higher QP means...

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