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More On The BBC's Codec 'Dirac'

Posted by timothy on from the bbc1-bbc2-bbc3 dept.

TioHoltzman writes "El Reg is reporting about a new codec that is built on top of wavelet technology and seems to offer performance that is "roughly in line with the Video Codec 9" from Microsoft. The project has been released as open source on SourceForge. This looks like it might be really interesting." (Previously mentioned a few weeks back.)

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  1. Wavelet compression rocks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have been lucky enough to see a prototype of a wavelet video compression system recently and I can tell you no word of a lie real time video across an ethernet network at 100 to 1 compression with no loss of quality. Amazing stuff and will be on the market very shortly....