Hardware manufacturers are notorious for preferring open MPEG, SMPTE, ITU standards over proprietary codecs (other than their own). I saw a presentation at SATIS in Paris a few years ago which listed the main PC codecs (including Theora) and then called MPEG "the only standards that matter". This argument still holds up: out of the three historical players who have been battling these past 15 years or so, the only reliable format across players all this time was and is... MPEG-1. From 1992!
I'm not sure "most people who think of Dirac" number more than a handful though. In the absence of any press communication, this is one of those quiet events which could have enormous impact. Sean On Jan 24, 2008 11:39 PM, Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
