Example systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods to implement hardware-accelerated
intra frame encoding are disclosed. Example hardware-accelerated
intra frame video encoders disclosed herein are VC3 compliant. Some example video encoders disclosed herein quantize
alternating current (AC) coefficients of a
macroblock of an input
image frame using a small set of anchor quantization scale factors (QSFs), and interpolate between the resulting bit counts for the first anchor QSFs to determine an estimated QSF meets a target bit budget. Some example video encoders disclosed herein perform bit coding with a round-robin packing strategy that distributes the packing of encoded symbols among macroblocks and discards excess symbols to avoid exceeding the specified
frame size. Some example video encoders disclosed herein are configurable via control circuitry and / or a driver that selects target bit budgets, anchor QSFs, encoding
modes, etc., thereby enabling single or multi pass operation and adjustable performance versus quality trade-offs.