- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:51:24 +0300
On Apr 2, 2007, at 23:33, Dave Singer wrote: > You miss the point. MPEG defines levels exactly so that bitstreams > can say "you need to be level X to be able to play this" and > players can implement "up to level X" and interoperability is well- > defined and assured. Levels *improve* the interoperability, not > make it worse. Without formal level definitions, you never know > for sure what you can 'get away with' in your encodings if you want > it to play on a set of devices. The flipside is that even if you've got the latest and greatest Mac Pro, if the content oversteps QuickTime's profile support, the video won't play. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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