Open Source codec > MPEG-2
- Thread starter K.I.L.E.R
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Dirac's been around for a while. Shows a lot of promise, although don't expect 'better than MPEG4' stuff, because motion comp makes up a larger part of the compression than the frame packing, so wavelet vs. DCT isn't necessarily a big win.
Best news is the desire to make it patent free - and the BBC have a reasonably big stick in this respect since they have a slice of the MPEG pie already.
Best news is the desire to make it patent free - and the BBC have a reasonably big stick in this respect since they have a slice of the MPEG pie already.
Isn't wavelet compression extremely processing-intensive?
Harddrives are cheap and broadband is fast these days, so if movies packed with wavelet compression can't run on most systems then what's the point. It's not a win then, it's a big loss.
Harddrives are cheap and broadband is fast these days, so if movies packed with wavelet compression can't run on most systems then what's the point. It's not a win then, it's a big loss.
