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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 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.

  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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