Experimental implementation of H264 in pure Python. This is intended to be a learning codec, so it's intended to be easy to understand but is inefficient as a result. This also is terrific as a software model for an HDL (hardware) implementation.
This uses quite suboptimal data structures (for example, each macroblock is an object) for educational use. As a result, each frame takes several seconds to encode.
What's supported:
- Fixed 16x16 macroblocks
- Quantization, with configurable Qp
- Intra frame compression
What's currently not supported:
- Inter frame compression
- I-frames
- Motion prediction
- Transport stream generation (bitmap only)
run
docker-compose up attache to the shell of the running machine go to /code/project run
/code/project # python testH264.py