H.264 works in current DVD players?
I was reading Apple's promo for the new iDVD. They say that it can employ H.264 encoding to make DVDs.
This implies that the current crop of DVDs can decode and play this sort of DVD. It wouldn't make much sense to make a DVD if people have to buy new DVD players to view it.
This tells me that H.264 is a different way of encoding to a standard file format that the current set of firmware in current DVD players could play back.
Yet I'm sure I read somewhere that H.264 files require much more processing power to decode than other files encoded by other encoding methods.
Can someone shed a little light on this? Is the firmware/hardware in DVD players that general?
Thanks.
This implies that the current crop of DVDs can decode and play this sort of DVD. It wouldn't make much sense to make a DVD if people have to buy new DVD players to view it.
This tells me that H.264 is a different way of encoding to a standard file format that the current set of firmware in current DVD players could play back.
Yet I'm sure I read somewhere that H.264 files require much more processing power to decode than other files encoded by other encoding methods.
Can someone shed a little light on this? Is the firmware/hardware in DVD players that general?
Thanks.
Comments
DVD obsoleted VHS.
HD-DVD will obsolete DVD.
It's a natural progression, and better to be at the leading edge than playing catch-up.
Originally posted by Telomar
Whatever happened to cassettes
lol or laser disks?
Originally posted by ineedag5pbnow
lol or laser disks?
heh, i actually bought a laser disc player when i was young. and until now i bought one (1) laser disc too.