On 6/22/06, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Personally I don't need H.264 yet, but someone probably does, and it seems like a good thing to have on the list, for future-proofing.
Sure. There is, however, quite a bit of uncertainty in the next-gen consumer video encoding space I think (what with Microsoft's attempts to push WMV, H.264, Bluray and HD-DVD (yes I'm mixing encoding and medium a bit here, the two interact somewhat), Dirac, etc... not to mention the continued development of the MPEG4-based codecs (of which H.264 is a very close cousin), and Theora).
I'm hoping to get *away* from ffmpeg, and use something that actually works instead. grump.
Huh... It's worked great over here. I would _really_ like to see a 1.0 theora soon though.
Looks like they are making some good progress. The MediaMVP output is SD only, not good for long term. It could be a nice short-to-medium term solution while we wait for prices of HD displays to come down, except I haven't seen anything about HD, so I assume it doesn't have enough power to input HD and scale it down to SD for output. A lot of the OTA shows are HD.
Ummm... Yeah. HD->SD conversion is even more intensive than HD decoding (think decoding plus resizing). That is, unless someone's snuck in an ingenious algorithmic trick that can be used to pluck an SD stream out of an HD one... which I suppose is quite possible (I certainly wouldn't know). Back in the day... HD displays had nice interoperable inputs like DVI and 15 pin VGA. Those were nice - hook a regular computer directly up to the display, select the correct resolution, you've got yourself a programmable TV. But apparently we're all pirates and can't be trusted with devices that actually talk to each other. --tim _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
