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Nancy Goes Head-to-Head With MPEG-4

Posted by Hemos on from the battle-head-to-head dept.

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."

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  1. Probably not by autopr0n · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The benefit of this codec is it's ease of computation, not necessarily it's image quality/bandwidth ratio.

    Anyway, since it's so quick to encode (you can do it real-time on a 50mips machine... so cell phone, pda, whatever) You'll probably be able to convert the files as fast as you can copy them to the device, or if you want to stream the videos to a cell phone you can have your computer decode them and then reencode them for broadcast.

    Unfortunately this thing seems to be a lot more tied up legaly then MPEG :( It could be a cool way to put videos on my iPaq (Mpeg is still a little choppy)

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  2. Market wont accept... by macemoneta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...video conferencing on the desktop, which has been available for years. Why does anyone think that they will want it in their cell phone?

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