Hi Tom,
I assume these services use the 1.3.1a version of VIC which has been available from the Sumover website for a while now? http://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/software/vic/releases/vic-h264/ In which case I would definitely agree that MPEG4 is a much better choice of codec than H264. I don't know if it's due to an incomplete implementation or lack of optimisation, but H264 is pretty 'hungry' in that version of VIC. Given all the compatibility issues between IOCOM and the AGTk [AVATS] VIC it would be nice to see if IOCOM could work on a compliant MEG4 codec instead. I can dream I suppose... Anyway, thanks for packaging these up into Video Services, as retrofitting H264 VIC into the existing H261 biased Video Producer meant a lot of headaches when it would default you back to H261 every time you reload it. Regards, Adam Horwich. From: owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-t...@mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Thomas D. Uram Sent: 28 February 2008 00:04 To: Jimmy Miklavcic Cc: ag-tech Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Any more H.264 news? Jimmy: A beta version of the h264/mpeg4 services can be gotten from here: http://www.accessgrid.org/project/Sumover Note that it is currently only for Windows. I'll work to get the Mac version up. I expect that Doug/Chris will provide Linux support very soon. Also note that if you are using these services to send mpeg4/h264, anyone who does not have the mpeg4/h264 consumer service installed will not be able to see your video. Please report problems liberally so we can improve this support. Tom On 1/28/08 5:17 PM, Jimmy Miklavcic wrote: Has there been any more progress with H.264 and AG 3.1? Also has anyone seen the new Osprey 700 HD? Jimmy -- Jimmy Miklavcic Multimedia Specialist jimmy.miklav...@utah.edu<mailto:jimmy.miklav...@utah.edu> UNIVERSITY OF UTAH CTR FOR HIGH PERFORM COMPUTING 155 SOUTH 1452 EAST RM 405 SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84112-0190 Office: 801.585.9335 Fax: 801.585.5366 http://www.anotherlanguage.org<http://www.anotherlanguage.org/>
