TICO (codec)
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The TICO codec, an abbreviation for "Tiny Codec,"[1] is a video compression technology created to facilitate the transmission of high-resolution video over existing network infrastructures, including both IP networks and SDI infrastructures, the result appears visually lossless. TICO codec was represented in 2013 by the Belgian company intoPIX.[2]
- Provides visually lossless quality with compression ratios up to 4:1.
- Supports a range of chroma subsampling formats, such as 4:2:2, 4:4:4, and offers 8, 10, or 12 bits flexibility in color depth.
- Provides options for both constant bitrate (CBR) and variable bitrate (VBR) encoding.
- Compatible with different resolutions, starting from mobile devices and HD to 4K/8K UHDTV.
- Encoder and decoder exhibit comparable levels of complexity.
- Ensures fixed latency, adaptable from microseconds to a chosen number of pixel lines.
- Has a low complexity codec design, supporting direct implementation in FPGA hardware, with minimal internal memory requirements, thus avoiding the need for external memory.[3]
- For a 4K image, it divides the image into 34 sections, each measuring 3840 x 64 pixels, which are afterwards individually processed during the encoding and decoding phases.[4]