- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:22:52 +0100
Also sprach Thomas Davies:
> Assuming that there are no roadblocks in this process, we
> intend to submit the rest of the Dirac system as VC-3 (or whatever
> number they're up to) towards the end of the year. So this time next
> year, there is a good chance that Dirac will be an international,
> royalty-free SMPTE standard.
Thanks for the update on Dirac. When do you expect the bitstream
format to be frozen?
Does Dirac aim at becoming a member in the Ogg family, or are you
primarily working towards a standalone format?
> In compression terms it's about twice as efficient as MPEG2,
> competitive with H264 and VC-1 and substantially more efficient
> than Theora.
Given that you are competitive with H264, are you also demanding the
same kind of processing power?
Cheers,
-h&kon
H?kon Wium Lie CTO ??e??
howcome at opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
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