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VP3, Open Source Video at 200kbs

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lower-bitrate-pr0n dept.

Honest Man noted that intel is hyping VP3 as the first low bitrate open source video codec. 200kbs for VHS quality video sounds good to me, especially when I can apt-get it. But is DivX already to entrenched in this niche?

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  1. "Open Source"? by slashmenot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where, pray tell, is the link to download the source?

  2. what about audio by Splork · · Score: 5, Interesting

    200kbit/sec for video? so what. double that if you want VHS quality sound along with it!

  3. VP3 as counterpart to MP3... by sam@caveman.org · · Score: 5, Interesting

    MP3 finally has a video counterpart - a file-compression algorithm that makes it possible to send large multimedia files over the Internet on demand. VP3 is the first open-source video codec to truly support VHS-quality video at bandwidths as low as 200 kbps.

    isn't MP3 a patented, non-free algorithm? isn't that why Ogg Vorbis exists? so the only reason Intel is comparing VP3 to MP3 is marketing crap, right?

    either that, or they are hoping people will compress millions of DVDs into VP3 and set up giant file-swapping services, that would be a video counterpart to MP3.

    in other news, are there any side-by-side comparisons of VP3 and DivX? and how does Ogg Tarkin fit into all of this, now that there is an 'open source' codec?

    -sam

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  4. Re:*Not* Open Source *or* Free Software by cruelworld · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can improve the code, as long as your improved codec's datastream can still be decoded by a cvs co unmodified decoder.

    This is smart, and contrary to what you believe you can improve the encoder without breaking compatibility with the decoder. The datastream format is what cannot change.

  5. Possibly... by Svartalf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There was some discussion on the developer lists about getting them to allow us to release an OGG video stream using their codec. Right now, they're supposedly looking at re-working their license to make it where something like that might happen.

    Otherwise, the best you can do with the current license is make a VP3 player/stream codec for Linux (Which wouldn't be a bad thing- I've seen the technology in action with RealPlayer 8 on Linux, playing some unbelievable streams from news.com.).

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