H264 compression

[yoramb]

Can I use H264 compression for a Bayer images? Can I do it without losing data? (i.e. Loss Less).

 

[velis]

Look, I'm in no way an expert here, but your question seems pretty strange:
I suppose by "bayer images" you are referring to this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter)? This is just your camera sensor. Its "native" format is RAW.

Then H264, being a motion-compensation based video (as in moving pictures) codec doesn't seem to be the right solution. There is a lossless option in H264 encoders, but that option produces extremely big results.And you gain nothing of the motion-compensation portion of the filter because there's only one frame to compress.

I don't think you'd gain much by using H264 for your images vs RAW or any more common truly lossless formats.

Can you rephrase your question?

 

[yoramb]

Velis.
Your answer is quite suficient and make sense.
Thank you very much.
Yoram B.

 

[yoramb]

BTW. Is there any recommended protocol to transmit H264 data from one node to another ?

 

[velis]

For television content, typically it's the TS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream ) that's used.