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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. great now when I download a fansub by cyrax777 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I get to play the wonderfull game of "What fucking codec did this person use" Theres already so many between Xvideo, whatever .MKV stangs for theres also OGM and theres probly alot more im forgetting about.

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

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