视频编码中I-frame，P-frame和B-frame

之前一直不懂I-frame，p-frame，B-frame的意思，google了一下，收集了一些有用的资料。

2010-12-15 21:00:26

 

I-frame

Short for i ntraframe , a video compression method used by the MPEG standard. In a motion sequence, individual frames of pictures are grouped together (called a group of pictures , or GOP ) and played back so that the viewer registers the video??s spatial motion. Also called a keyframe , an I-frame is a single frame of digital content that the compressor examines independent of the frames that precede and follow it and stores all of the data needed to display that frame. Typically, a I-frames are interspersed with P-frames and B-frames in a compressed video. The more I-frames that are contained, the better quality the video will be; however, I-frames contain the most amount of bits and therefore take up more space on the storage medium.

 

P-frame

Short for p redictive frame , or p redicted frame , a video compression method used by the MPEG standard. In a motion sequence, individual frames of pictures are grouped together (called a group of pictures , or GOP ) and played back so that the viewer registers the video??s spatial motion. P-frames follow I-frames and contain only the data that have changed from the preceding I-frame (such as color or content changes). Because of this, P-frames depend on the I-frames to fill in most of the data.

P-frames and B-frames are also referred to as delta frames .

 

B-frame

Short for  b i-directional  frame , or  b i-directional predictive  frame , a  video compression   method used by the  MPEG   standard. In a motion sequence, individual frames of pictures are grouped together (called a  group of pictures , or  GOP ) and played back so that the viewer registers the video??s spatial motion. As the name suggests, B-frames rely on the frames preceding and following them. B-frames contain only the data that have changed from the preceding frame or are different from the data in the very next frame.

P-frames   and  B-frames   are also referred to as  delta frames .