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Dirac: BBC Open Source Video Codec

Posted by michael on 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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  1. The successor will be named... by JessLeah · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Dalec. (The Dr. Who production team will use it.)

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  2. Re:Xvid? by imroy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What the hell are you talking about? Clearly not the same XviD that everyone else knows.