Abstract: A video processing system includes a host processor, a video encoder and a memory. The host processor sends a configuration message to the video encoder that indicates to the video encoder how to encode a video frame and that includes information indicating the location of encoding configuration data that is stored in the memory. The video encoder receives the configuration message, uses the location indicating information to read the encoding configuration data from the memory, and encodes the video frame in accordance with the encoding configuration data read from the memory.

Abstract: A set of encoding options to use when encoding an array of data elements is selected based on a bit count value and a distortion value for that set of encoding options. The distortion value is determined from a set of error values that represents the difference between a set of frequency domain coefficients and a set of de-quantised coefficients. The set of frequency domain coefficients are generated by applying only a subset of row transformations or only a subset of column transformations. A set of quantised coefficients are generated by quantising only a subset of the set of frequency domain coefficients. This arrangement provides a more efficient way of selecting encoding options, but without a detrimental reduction in the efficacy of the selection process.