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Sexy Commando writes "According to this article on ZDNet, the new codec, H.264, is able to stream DVD quality video using bandwidth as little as less than 1Mbps. The new codec requires 3 to 4 times as much CPU power than MPEG-2 to process the video. Now we can have two movies on 1 CD. Cheers."
That's a LOT of pr0n!
3cx.org - A truly bad website.
I'm reasonably sure that I just heard Jack Valenti spinning in his grave. The MPAA thought they had problems before...
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Finally a consumer need for CPU horsepower !
he: Hey babe, wanna watch a movie ??
she: sure
he: wait till i boot the player
she: ??????
he: here we go...
she: is it me, or is it getting hotter in here??
he: thats just my dual XEON box chewing....
Why are other peoples sig's always more witty ???
The new codec requires 3 to 4 times as much CPU power than MPEG-2 to process the video.
Long ago, in the before time, when I had an Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73 GHz, before I fried it and got thrown back to a 1.4 GHz athlon and then I fried that and got thrown back to a 600 PIII) I was able to rip DVD's and convert them to DivX in real time (a little faster actually, around 34 fps.) Now I don't know the differences between MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 but 3 to 4 times as much CPU power doesn't sound too pleasing. Right now I'm riping a DVD, err wait no, I don't do things like that it's illegal. Hypothetically speaking, if I were ripping a DVD right now, there would be 20 hours left because on a 600P III DVD's take a long time to convert to DivX (or so I'm told.) It takes all day for me... err not me, it takes all day for a person with a 600 PIII to convert a DVD to DivX. *shudders thinking about when that person ripped the Matrix for 30 hours and had 3 files, 2 700 meg files and one 50 meg file*
I can encode a DVD down to a single byte! Yes, that's right, stream a single 8-bit byte from the internet to your computer and watch a DVD! However, the media cartels have already gotten to this one, so it requires a copy of the DVD in your drive for "verification" purposes. People will definately pay for this invention!
Seriously, though, I think this is great. Now I'll be able to store all of my porn, I mean movies in less disk space - a valuable commodity when your main computer is a laptop with a 20gb drive.
Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones, which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90)
This is exactly what intel and AMD need. A real reason for people to upgrade their hardware.
For most people even a 400Mhz system is enough.
Simply writing bigger and clunkier apps (a la microshaft) is not a good reason for me to dump[ my hardware.
It seems to me that the limits of compression technology are self inflicted. We don't do better compression because it takes too long to compress/decompress. However, with the improved speeds capacities of new hardware we can break those barriers.
When will we see this compression to allow more bandwidth down a dialup line?
Send me that a pair of 1Thz AMD CPUs!!!
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so 'two movies on 1 CD' sounds, well, a bit far fetched...
Porn films are usually short (or so my friend told me), so 2 40 minute films could fit on a cd.
Get yourself a Sigma Designs XCard and dump a low power PC near your TV.
While few doubt the power of the new format, its emergence could complicate the landscape for MPEG-4's video format offers, which presently consist of two implementations: Simple Profile (SP) and Advanced Simple Profile (ASP).
And I thought VHS SP EP and SLP was confusing enough...