On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 13:00, Kieran Kunhya <[email protected]> wrote: > We're going to be committing Blu-Ray compatible encoding in x264 soon, which > will be the first open-source Blu-Ray compatible encoder, and we plan to > release a free downloadable Blu-Ray image to coincide with this. We really > don't want to release something like Big Buck Bunny or Elephants Dream for > the umpteenth time so we're looking for something else (length doesn't matter > much)
…nor Sita Sings The Blues, presumably ;) > The conditions are: > > Must be "free" > Must look good in 1080p > Must have a high-quality master available to us > > Are there any good suggestions for what we could use? NASA have a whole heap of stuff, especially Hubblecast and I think the ISS on-board programmes. Browsing Vimeo HD will likely turn up some decent showreels which the creators are generally happy to release if you ask them. Also speak to the guy behind VODO (Jamie King), ISTR he mentioned he had some 1080p stuff. [email protected] is the place for enquiries. You’ll probably have to ask for the masters—most folks don’t tend to bother uploading them anywhere, for relatively obvious reasons! Most of the people I’ve dealt with related to this kind of stuff are pretty amenable to trailblazing projects and the like if you ask nicely :) > (For the H.264 nerds out there, another developer added multiple slice > support a few months ago and I wrote a large part of NAL-HRD which were the > missing pieces we didn't have that Blu-Ray requires) Awesome work — congratulations to you and the rest of the x264 team! M. - 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/[email protected]/
