The BBC isn't actively working on the code-bases anymore, since it's "out in the wild". There's still some ongoing BBC work on professional VC-2/Dirac Pro hardware, and that's making steady progress. To get adopted Dirac needs a decent encoder and decoder, so 1.0.9 is a big step in the right direction.
Incidentally, you guys may not know that MPEG have started discussion on whether to produce a royalty-free codec, and it seems quite likely that something will come out of it (if only to stop the IETF stealing their thunder). The most likely thing in the short term is to do some cut-down MPEG2 thing, but they still might make a new one as well or instead. What that might be in technology terms will be TBD. Maybe Xiph should join one of the national standards bodies and start tracking this stuff or even going to the odd MPEG meeting. It's quite expensive to go to a meeting, but not very much to join a NB (at least in the UK). With H265/HVC due in 2013 there will also be big pressure on H264 business models in the next few years. It could even be that the royalty-free baseline issue gets reopened. cheers Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Giles [mailto:gi...@xiph.org] Sent: 11 February 2010 17:21 To: kaolite Cc: Schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Schrodinger-devel] is dirac dead ? On 11 February 2010 09:10, kaolite <kaol...@gmail.com> wrote: > It wants to know if dirac is always developped ? the web site seems to > be down (css out) .. Dirac Pro seems to be ready to be VC2 ... but > since one year quite no news ... There's still work going on with the schrödinger codebase, as you can see at http://diracvideo.org/git I agree it's unfortunate that diracvideo.org is missing its css, especially since there are no navigation links. -r ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Schrodinger-devel mailing list Schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/schrodinger-devel http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Schrodinger-devel mailing list Schrodinger-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/schrodinger-devel
