Sean DALY wrote:
I think this is fabulous news. Congratulations to all who worked on it.
A patent-unencumbered (say that 10x fast) royalty-free codec is
something the world needs.
So what if Microsoft doesn't support it, they don't support H.264 or
AAC either (XBox & Zune aside) and look where that got iTunes.
It is indeed fabulous news, but people should bear in mind that Dirac
Pro / VC2 is not the codec that most people think of as "Dirac". It
lacks motion-compensation, which is unnecessary for its intended use,
but which is needed to make it competitive with widely-adopted
alternatives such as WM9 and h.264.
Dirac Pro is being marketed in hardware form as a way of squeezing HD
video down relatively low-bandwidth cables, such as the SDI cables
installed in many TV studios for standard definition signals - see
http://www.numediatechnology.com/products.html for details.
http://dirac.sourceforge.net/specification.html gives more details,
including the specifications of the two codecs.
S
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