Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec

Posted by michael on Friday April 30, 2004 @05:50AM from the knowing-is-half-the-battle dept.

NickFitz writes "Need To Know this week has a piece about Dirac, a BBC R&D project to produce a video codec, which has been released as an Open Source project. From BBCi: 'Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced... Our algorithm seems to give a two-fold reduction in bit rate over MPEG-2 for high definition video (e.g. 1920x1080 pixels), its original target application. It has been further developed to optimise it for internet streaming resolutions.'"

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Re:Duplicating work? by ocelotbob · 2004-04-30 07:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's a lossy codec...figures...british cars leak oil, british codecs leak bits...

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Rejected by mapryan · 2004-04-30 08:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So when I submitted this on the 22nd April it gets rejected, but now ntk runs a story it's newsworthy. Is there any reason why individuals submit stories as standalone interesting items if they need the validity of another tech site first?