On 6/4/06, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca> wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, chris clepper wrote:

> Can you go into more detail about the revisions to block~?  My rough
> calculations put a 720x480 YCbCr image at about 64 times the data of a
> single 96khz audio signal.  RGBA is double that.

How do you compute that?

DV-NTSC is 720 px * 480 px * 30 Hz * 2 samples/px^2 = 20736000 samples/s
DV-PAL  is 720 px * 576 px * 25 Hz * 2 samples/px^2 = 20736000 samples/s
96 kHz mono is            96000 Hz * 1 samples      =    96000 samples/s

and 20736000/96000 = exactly 216 = 6*6*6 but closest powers of 2 are 2^7 =
128 and 2^8 = 256. (comparing with stereo sound doesn't change the
relative closeness of powers of two)

I forgot to make the video signal 4 bytes per channel in my calculation.  If you compare the 4 byte audio to single byte per channel video then it is 54 times the data.  64 is the next power of two.

Your numbers are the right ones to use.