video-log-comp

Thank you for your explanation.

Do I understand correctly, that this idea wouldnt work because you either end up with the same quality, but bigger files or with the same file size, but worse quality?

I had this idea that you could increase the amount of black colors a monitor could display if you combine 4 pixels. Having 3 black, and one of them "one bit" less black. This way you could have a more fine grained black-white transition.

I thought a "log" video might be able to contain the information to allow this without to much overhead.

A question to the experts here: What happens if we take the "log" video and compress it using current compression algorithms and ship the LUT with it?

If I understand this correctly, the quality of dark scenes should then improve.

Would that then also allow users to edit the LUT or supply their own to get a better picture on their respective monitors?