SMPTE Adoption Of WMV9 Hits Some Snags

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SMPTE Adoption Of WMV9 Hits Some Snags

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 23, 2004 @07:07AM from the just-some-pesky-baiting-and-switching dept.

SysKoll writes "EETimes is running an interesting story about the future of the video codecs for HD DVDs. The Redmond Beast convinced both the Blu-ray Disc Association and the DVD Forum to adopt its WMV9 video codec over MPEG4 for the upcoming VC-1 standard that is mandated for high-definition video devices. That was a huge coup for MS. Now it turns out that Microsoft cheated and lied: its code is not as good as MPEG 4, the WMV9 reference implementation is not available, and the WMV9 test suite does not exercise all the features. The SMPTE might drop WMV9 after all. Apparently, a highly technical standard body is harder to snowjob than the usual clueless consumers."

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Baby Jesus! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 07:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

He loves WMA!
Never heard that word before.. by GerbilSocks · 2004-10-23 07:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Snowjob rhymes with blow***
hehe
One down... by Doc+Ruby · 2004-10-23 07:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Maybe we should put SMPTE in charge of US Intelligence. Then their crack WMV department could sniff the bullshit about WMD that lied us into this catastrophe in Iraq.

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Parent is not a troll! by kylef · 2004-10-23 07:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Mods, you need to get a handle on yourselves. You are NOT supposed to mod a post down because you disagree with it!

The parent made a very legitimate point: that the Slashdot headline used some pretty ridiculous, biased terms in its description of th EETimes article, including things like "Redmond Beast" and "cheated and lied" which appear nowhere in the article itself. He was simply pointing out that the submitter was obviously trying to get a rise out of people.

If you are so insecure that you can't even allow others to share their opinions that you have to mod them down, you have other problems.
The Redmond Beast? by DaveCBio · 2004-10-23 07:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Come on. Is it really necessary to interject this crap with every article on Microsoft?
Snowjob by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 07:52 · Score: -1, Offtopic

That's like a blow job.. right? In that case, I'm going to be giving a special someone a "snowjob" in a few hours, heh heh.
1. Re:Snowjob by Spolster · 2004-10-23 14:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  You're *that* flexible?
Re:Why on earth would anyone use WMV or WMA? by DigiShaman · 2004-10-23 07:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Screw compression. With harddrive space so cheap, I rip my CDs into RAW or WAV format baby!!! Pure, clean, and unspoiled!

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Re:big suprise there by phrostie · 2004-10-23 07:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

not only is it a good thing it's a feature!
Re:Well it's surprising. by arivanov · 2004-10-23 08:50 · Score: 1, Offtopic

There is a long industry tradition here. For example most RSA reference code has interesting "omissions". Classic example is MD4 for which the reference implementation does not work on 64 bit and big endian and has a number of code paths that are effectively if (1) {} without the else. That is besides lack of error checking and a few paths with NULL derefs in them. At the same time they were shipping software which had the MD4 transform, but was perfectly on Solaris (big endian) and Tru64 (big endian and 64 bit).

There are a few others though none of them so spread around as RSA.

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Bill, Say It Ain't So, Bill by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 08:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Neener Neener Neener by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-23 09:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Buryin' mah weener.

Take it all, Microbitch!