Nancy Goes Head-to-Head With MPEG-4

Justin Rossi writes: "EE Times has an article about Nancy, 'the lightest video codec' which is taking Asia by storm and finally bringing streaming Video to handheld devices. What I wonder is how it shall fare against MPEG-4, Ogg Tarkin, and MC-10."

Comments

Re:phone sex

[alen]

Just imagine the possiblities for live phone sex shows. The porn industry will love this. And why have phone sex with your wife with only words? Soon she will be able to strip for you whereever you are in the world.

i made such video codec too

[Anonymous Coward]

me too made such i video codec.
it runs at 9600 baud and takes a minimum of cpu time so it is well suited for cell phones and small pda`s.

the algorithm to encode a video frame:
b = a

where b is the frame and a is the buffer to be transmitted to the cell phone.

the algorithm to decode the video frame:
a = b

where a is the cell phones frame buffer and b is the buffer where the cell phone received the encoded frame.

with 4 grayscale values and a 64x64 picture it
runs at 1.17187 fps.

great isnt it ?

and dear slashdot editor:
next time when posting such news please remember that most readers are interested in stuff like picture quality, resolution, and comparsions to existing video codecs.
without them, the claims brought up are not standing on any ground or are not worth mentioning.

What a name

[Syberghost]

I can just see the advertising slogan now:

"I'm a Nancy boy. Wouldn't you like to be a Nancy boy too?"

Re:What a strange name for a video codec

[ayjay29]

"Nancy"? Was it named after some coders girlfriend or something?

Can't decide if you are sexist, assuming coders cannot be female, or I am homophonic, assuming coders cannot be lesbians.

Great

[marko123]

If we put a light on the camera, we can see inside the ears of millions of mobile phone lusers.

"Hullo John? My ear's really bugging me, can you see if anything's stuck in there?"