quarter common intermediate format (QCIF)

quarter common intermediate format (QCIF): A video format defined in ITU-T Recommendation H.261 that is characterized by 176 luminance pixels on each of 144 lines, with half as many chrominance pixels in each direction. Note: QCIF has one-fourth as many pixels as the full common intermediate format.

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