CTU is the LCU. It is a new concept introduced by h.265. it is similar to the previous macro block of video codecs. The size of CTU can be 16x16, 32x32, 64x64, you can set h.265 to select the CTU you need. CTU selection and bit rate andAlgorithmThere is a mutually restrictive relationship between the complexity and the bit rate and algorithm complexity of CTU in different test sequences, the test result is equivalent to the same image quality (SNR ):
From the table, we can see that the smaller the CTU size, the smaller the encoding complexity, but the larger the decoding time complexity. The CTU size decreases to different resolution test sequences, with different compression ratios decreasing. Therefore, the selection of CTU size should be based on the relationship between the above three.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_tree_unit