1. A method, comprising: receiving a video signal; coding the video signal using hybrid coding, the coding including: reducing temporal redundancy by block based motion compensated prediction in order to establish a prediction error signal, deciding whether to code the transformed signal resulting from transforming the prediction error signal into the frequency domain, or to code the prediction error signal in the spatial domain, coding the transformed signal in the frequency domain in response to deciding to code the transformed signal, and coding the prediction error signal in the spatial domain in response to deciding to code the prediction error signal in the spatial domain, wherein coding the prediction error signal in the spatial domain includes coding samples of the prediction error signal in the spatial domain, and coding the transformed signal in the frequency domain includes coding transform coefficients of the transformed signal in the frequency domain using a same method as used for coding the samples of the prediction error signal in the spatial domain, wherein using the same method includes coding according to CABAC or CAVLC; and transmitting or storing the coded prediction error signal.