sparaig wrote: > --- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > >>> Most of the features included in MPEG-4 are left to individual >>> >> developers to decide whether to implement them. This means that there >> are probably no complete implementations of the entire MPEG-4 set of >> standards. To deal with this, the standard includes the concept of >> "profiles" and "levels", allowing a specific set of capabilities to be >> defined in a manner appropriate for a subset of applications." >> >> --- cut--- >> Do you see anything about QuickTime here? Do you really know anything >> about video programming? Have you ever written a demuxer or muxer? Do >> you know the MPEG format, sequence headers, etc? Have you ever written >> a stream parser? >> >> Dream on. >> >> > > Why so hostile? > >
I'm not being hostile but some of the stuff you're saying is like someone who's never been to India telling me what India is all about when I've been there. I've been on the steering committees for these consortiums (not the MPEG-4 but some others). I've been to Apple developer conferences and worked with Apple developer support. I've developed on the Mac and in fact at the moment looking to pick up a used Mac that can run OS X so that I can port some products to it. I have an iMac here but I can't put OS X on it. The company I used to work for started out very Mac centric. I also do some video development and had to even write a player for the last product I did. I've also been working with digital video since 1991 when I bought my first camcorder and capture box for the Amiga. Now if you want to talk about a superior computer, the Amiga was way ahead of it's time (and the Lisa before that until Jobs killed it). Answer me this: what is the primary difference between MPEG-2 and MPEG-4? It's a very simple engineering idea which overcomes a limitation of MPEG-2 and in itself gave MPEG-4 (also h.263) more compression. As Barry pointed out you're doing the same groundless thing for Apple you do for TM. If anything I'm trying to help you get a better grasp on how the computer industry works and how they develop technology. It's not any ego trip for me, I'm just one of the many who worked "in the valley" and have "been there, done that." I try to do the same thing in explaining how mantra shastra works.
