New Codec support. Apple hops on AVC train
Apple demos h.264 at NAB 2004
Finally. Great news. Apple is now showing support for a codec that is one of the mandatory codecs proposed by the DVD Forum. Advanced Video Coding does come with some hefty Encode/Decode requirements. Today it's roughly 8x Encode 4x Decode over standard MPEG2. Meaning lowcost portable video players are a bit off for now until new powerful chips come out with support.
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With its ability to encode content for so many mediums, Casanova sees uses for h.264 in many of the everyday things we do today, including DVD movies, Cable television providers, on-demand television in hotels and next-generation cellular telephones. For example, with h.264, DVD content authoring houses could use the same size DVD disk, but output the content in HD quality.
With its ability to encode content for so many mediums, Casanova sees uses for h.264 in many of the everyday things we do today, including DVD movies, Cable television providers, on-demand television in hotels and next-generation cellular telephones. For example, with h.264, DVD content authoring houses could use the same size DVD disk, but output the content in HD quality.
Finally. Great news. Apple is now showing support for a codec that is one of the mandatory codecs proposed by the DVD Forum. Advanced Video Coding does come with some hefty Encode/Decode requirements. Today it's roughly 8x Encode 4x Decode over standard MPEG2. Meaning lowcost portable video players are a bit off for now until new powerful chips come out with support.
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I'm in satellite busienss and I'm gonna show this off to my boss since we're looking at H.264 as an alternative to possibly using WM9 as a broadcast codec (which we are already using)....
I would love to see this in iChat; the future of streaming video is looking even better .
It is going to be a while before we see PVR's using AVC though. It's far easier to have a PVC record MPEG2 high bitrate right now than something like AVC. Shame cause an 80GB harddrive recording HD AVC would provide over 12 hrs of HD recording.