- From: David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:08:43 +0000
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Glyn Wintle <glynwintle@yahoo.com> Date: 25 Jan 2008 01:15 Subject: [ORG-discuss] BBC video codec to become an international standard To: Open Rights Group open discussion list <org-discuss at lists.openrightsgroup.org> First linked to by groklaw http://sonofid.blogspot.com/2008/01/on-road-to-dirac-standard-at-last.html Ok, so I know that people think that Dirac disappeared into a black hole some while ago but we're still hanging in there and getting it done. We're just coming up to some really major milestones and things are looking really exciting. First, Dirac (or part of it) is going to be an international standard. Yay! We made a cut-down version doing intra coding only and this has only just been submitted to the SMPTE. If it goes through it will become VC-2 (Windows Media 9 became VC-1 when they standardised it). After a lot of hard work fighting SMPTE's preferred Word format (yuk) it went in just before Christmas and is being voted on as a Committee Draft as I write this. At the same time we've been updating the full spec and that's been published today. Version 1.0 covers the professional VC-2 stuff, whilst version 2.0 covers the whole system. If VC-2 is well-received we'll propose an extension so that it covers the whole of Dirac. Then at last there'll be a royalty-free video compression standard ... ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ ORG-discuss mailing list ORG-discuss at lists.openrightsgroup.org http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/org-discuss
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