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Dirac 1.0.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the open-standards-the-movie dept.

dylan_- writes "According to their website, 'Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing.' Now a stable version of the dirac-research codebase, Dirac 1.0.0, has been released. The BBC have already successfully used the new codec during the Beijing Olympics and are looking to push it to more general use throughout the organisation. The latest version of VLC (the recently released 0.9.2) has support for Dirac using the Schroedinger library."

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  1. Great, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I tried using the Schrodinger library but I'm uncertain it works. Plus, I can't find my cat.

    1. Re:Great, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Plus, I can't find my cat.

      Be glad for that, as long as you dont you might still have one.

    2. Re:Great, but... by Hangeron · · Score: 3, Funny

      I had success integrating Dirac, and got a result of 1.

    3. Re:Great, but... by tobiasly · · Score: 4, Funny

      I tried using the Schrodinger library but I'm uncertain it works. Plus, I can't find my cat.

      I hate to tell you, but your cat is dead. And/or not.

    4. Re:Great, but... by John+Hasler · · Score: 3, Funny

      You may have loaded libheisenberg instead. They sometimes become entangled.

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  2. Re:Open source overkill by damn_registrars · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Schrodinger software is available under any of the GPLv2, MIT or MPL licences. Libraries may also be used under LGPL.

    Sounds like someone wanted there to be no question about whether it was open source.

    Sounds to me like the license exists in multiple states at once, which may be exactly the way Schrodinger would have liked it.

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  3. Re:For low values of success by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Funny

    Id guess that at least about 40% of all shots from news or sports footage is overexposed by at least 2 stops.

    And I thought that was some kind of UK New Wave artsy Duane Hopkins/dogma thing they were going for.

    Once again, I mistake incompetence for artistic innovation.

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  4. Re:0xBBCD by Yetihehe · · Score: 3, Funny

    It doesn't? It's Blasphemy! In the beginning, there was word. And in word there was two bytes. In two bytes there was 16 bits. And the root saw it was good.

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  5. Re:Performance? Benefits? by Ant+P. · · Score: 2, Funny

    The codec is new, give it a few months.

    Early DVDs looked like shitty 90% compressed jpegs too, you know.

  6. Re:top gear = rockin' :) by caluml · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks for your support, TV licensees of Britain!

    Uh, that's OK. Just send me some money, and I'll make sure it gets passed on to the right pub... I mean people.

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  7. Dirac? Schrodinger? wha...? by aqk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, I KNEW those Atomic Physics courses I took way back in University would come in handy!

    Who needs to compress time, when all you hafta do is compress the video.
    If I took a video of my cat, and then compressed it with this new codec, would the cat be...
    Umm.. never mind...!
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