Though we have certainly examined these four video codecs extensively, this article can by no means be considered the be-all, end-all on their relative merits. There are dozens of parameters and options when it comes to encoding video and, as thorough as we have been, there is much left unexplored. Variable bitrate and dual-pass encoding, for example, are common and useful features we didn't cover here - unfortunately, they're not entirely available in QuickTime 6.5 Pro for Sorenson3 or MPEG-4 encoding.
They didn't use VBR? VBR isn't "entirely" available for quicktime? Does this mean that they didn't want to buy the Sorenson 3 Pro codec?
Also, it seems that they didn't take advantage of various tweaks one can use to improve encoding quality. Maybe your garden variety consumer won't want to tweak encoding parameters for best quality/lowest bitrate, but this review is useless for me.
My preferred application for encoding is Sorenson Squeeze. I don't always have time for extensive tweaking, and Squeeze gives me great results whatever codec I am using. I find I am using this more and more and Cleaner less and less.
I understand your cynicism, but congress people actually hire people (usually lowly interns) to open, classify and organize all the mail, and take notes about issues raised. This is one way they have of understanding what their constituents are thinking.
I had a girlfriend in college who interned in a senator's office, and her job was performing "triage" on the mail. (She sent me copies of some of the letters in the crazy file.) If I remember correctly, the formula they used was something like 1 letter represented the views of 1,000 (or maybe 10,000) constituents. I don't know what the formula is for e-mail, but I am sure it's not anywhere near as high a ratio.
Now I fully understand that some representatives are too deep into the pockets of industry. I consider Berman, the rep of the next district over, to be a lost cause. His nose is too far up the Mouse's ass. Furthermore, many of his constituents are employees of the Mouse.
That's what I was trying to think of. Not disk doubler, but Stacker! Thanks!
I "broke" my first computer during the first week, which came with Stacker preinstalled, when I screwed around with the config.sys file and rebooted. All I had on the directory was config.sys, autoexec.bat, and one really big file.
The great thing about OS X is that it's an industrial strength OS with a pretty and easy to use GUI. The GUI might not be your cup of tea, and some will argue about the ease of use, but the underlying OS is a multiuser *nix system.
As far as your being unable to justify the price, please join me in a nice glass of kool aid, here under the pleasant shade of the RFD.;n)
No doubt Pixar will use the best tool for the job. If they start using G5s in their renderfarm, I wouldn't be all that surprised if they used Linux or Darwin on them, to avoid unnecessary GUI overhead.
If Pixar was not using the best tool for the job, I'd have heard grumbling on the grapevine. So far, this hasn't been the case.
Hey, thanks! Now my motherdisk is no longer wobbly! I've had to use a cinderblock to stop my laptup compyutoer from rattling of my desk, but no more. I'm thinking of performing the same operation on my laundry machine.
Imagine that a slashdotter wrote one e-mail to a representative or a government body for every 20 posts he or she wrote here. Even better if a physical letter were sent through the mail.
The reason that it was eventually broken was because it had been misapplied. Selden's patent was for a machine that used a specific type of engine, and since Ford used a different engine (as did all other auto manufacturers), the patent really didn't apply. However, for many years Selden was able to convince every manufacturer (except for Ford) that he did own the patent for all automobiles.
I haven't read about the Selden Patent in quite some time. There are some obvious parallels with SCO and Linux (including the threats to sue end users!).
Patents go back over 500 years in English law, upon which the US legal system is based. So, if you think that there were no patent laws prior to the formation of this country, you would be wrong.
If you wish to learn more about patents, there are a variety of sites that can help you. Here is one that has a brief historical summary.
There is such a thing as logic and reason, by which we can determine courses of action and policy. So, while you can say, "companies would be forced to innovate faster in order to stay ahead", it's not equally plausible, unless you can somehow demonstrate that this is how businesses operate.
The grandparent poster used both logic and an understanding of how businesses operate to explain why patents are good policy. You've failed to refute his argument.
I pretty much agree that Kodak really pissed away their early advantage in the consumer market, but I have to assert that they developed much of the technology that Canon and Nikon use today. Canon and Nikon both use chips developed by Kodak.
Please don't call me Jesus, although dude is fine, especially if you're into that whole brevity thing.
I'm not an astroturfer for Kodak. I think your problem with my posts is that you have the typical knee jerk reaction that patents are bad. Patents are a good thing, despite the fact that they have been severely abused lately. Copyrights are a good thing, despite their abuse, and the criminal extension of them into infinity by corrupt congressmen.
It's obvious that the patent system needs an overhaul, but I suspect you are one of those that wants to do away with all patents and all copyrights. My guess is that you've never had an original idea, and thus have never felt the need for any protection.
Go ahead and mod me down for not conforming to anti-IP attitude that abounds here.
I think you got it. The images I saw didn't display what I would recognize as normal chromatic aberration. It was a weird kind of bloom on the edges of some bright red chinese lanterns. I'll tell my buddy, but I think he already got rid of the camera ( the sony 828, if I remember correctly).
Yeah, I went to ustpo.gov already, and I am too stupid to use their search engine to find kodak's digital imaging patents. Thanks for noticing.
There are so many ACs, and so few of them are helpful.
Anyway, it's really not out of laziness that I haven't been able to find anything at uspto.gov. It someone would take pity on poor stupid me and provide some numbers or, even better, links, I'd really appreciate it.
But did you use "123-456-7890" as your phone number when you registered your domain?
Individually, all of these elements are innocent. Put together, while they might still turn out to be innocent, they certainly appear suspicious. Anderer, MS, and SCO could certainly dispel these suspicions if there was nothing to them and they wanted to. My guess is that they've got to get their stories straight, first.;n)
Are you actually complaining about the creation of U.S. jobs? Think of all the lawyers Kodak and other companies will have to hire! I'm thinking of going to law school, so I can have a career that won't be outsourced.
Maybe they'd be doing sony a favor by forcing them to use Kodak CCDs. I have a friend who bought a Sony. He's getting weird purple fringing in backlit areas of his images.
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They didn't use VBR? VBR isn't "entirely" available for quicktime? Does this mean that they didn't want to buy the Sorenson 3 Pro codec?
Also, it seems that they didn't take advantage of various tweaks one can use to improve encoding quality. Maybe your garden variety consumer won't want to tweak encoding parameters for best quality/lowest bitrate, but this review is useless for me.
My preferred application for encoding is Sorenson Squeeze. I don't always have time for extensive tweaking, and Squeeze gives me great results whatever codec I am using. I find I am using this more and more and Cleaner less and less.
I still want to find out exactly what is in the Kodak patents before damning them as dodgy, but I find the irony extremely rich.
Thanks for the corrections as well.
I understand your cynicism, but congress people actually hire people (usually lowly interns) to open, classify and organize all the mail, and take notes about issues raised. This is one way they have of understanding what their constituents are thinking.
I had a girlfriend in college who interned in a senator's office, and her job was performing "triage" on the mail. (She sent me copies of some of the letters in the crazy file.) If I remember correctly, the formula they used was something like 1 letter represented the views of 1,000 (or maybe 10,000) constituents. I don't know what the formula is for e-mail, but I am sure it's not anywhere near as high a ratio.
Now I fully understand that some representatives are too deep into the pockets of industry. I consider Berman, the rep of the next district over, to be a lost cause. His nose is too far up the Mouse's ass. Furthermore, many of his constituents are employees of the Mouse.
That's what I was trying to think of. Not disk doubler, but Stacker! Thanks!
I "broke" my first computer during the first week, which came with Stacker preinstalled, when I screwed around with the config.sys file and rebooted. All I had on the directory was config.sys, autoexec.bat, and one really big file.
The great thing about OS X is that it's an industrial strength OS with a pretty and easy to use GUI. The GUI might not be your cup of tea, and some will argue about the ease of use, but the underlying OS is a multiuser *nix system.
;n)
As far as your being unable to justify the price, please join me in a nice glass of kool aid, here under the pleasant shade of the RFD.
Jobs is pretty hands off at Pixar.
No doubt Pixar will use the best tool for the job. If they start using G5s in their renderfarm, I wouldn't be all that surprised if they used Linux or Darwin on them, to avoid unnecessary GUI overhead.
If Pixar was not using the best tool for the job, I'd have heard grumbling on the grapevine. So far, this hasn't been the case.
Hey, thanks! Now my motherdisk is no longer wobbly! I've had to use a cinderblock to stop my laptup compyutoer from rattling of my desk, but no more. I'm thinking of performing the same operation on my laundry machine.
And before doublespace, there was disk doubler. What a great way to lose your data!
It's 1 MB = 1024 KB
1 KB = 1024 Bytes.
Powers of 2
I've been getting faster rotational speeds since I opened up my HD and removed the "dummy" platters.
Imagine that a slashdotter wrote one e-mail to a representative or a government body for every 20 posts he or she wrote here. Even better if a physical letter were sent through the mail.
The reason that it was eventually broken was because it had been misapplied. Selden's patent was for a machine that used a specific type of engine, and since Ford used a different engine (as did all other auto manufacturers), the patent really didn't apply. However, for many years Selden was able to convince every manufacturer (except for Ford) that he did own the patent for all automobiles.
I haven't read about the Selden Patent in quite some time. There are some obvious parallels with SCO and Linux (including the threats to sue end users!).
Sorry if it seems like I'm picking on you.
Patents go back over 500 years in English law, upon which the US legal system is based. So, if you think that there were no patent laws prior to the formation of this country, you would be wrong.
If you wish to learn more about patents, there are a variety of sites that can help you. Here is one that has a brief historical summary.
There is such a thing as logic and reason, by which we can determine courses of action and policy. So, while you can say, "companies would be forced to innovate faster in order to stay ahead", it's not equally plausible, unless you can somehow demonstrate that this is how businesses operate.
The grandparent poster used both logic and an understanding of how businesses operate to explain why patents are good policy. You've failed to refute his argument.
I pretty much agree that Kodak really pissed away their early advantage in the consumer market, but I have to assert that they developed much of the technology that Canon and Nikon use today. Canon and Nikon both use chips developed by Kodak.
Please don't call me Jesus, although dude is fine, especially if you're into that whole brevity thing.
I'm not an astroturfer for Kodak. I think your problem with my posts is that you have the typical knee jerk reaction that patents are bad. Patents are a good thing, despite the fact that they have been severely abused lately. Copyrights are a good thing, despite their abuse, and the criminal extension of them into infinity by corrupt congressmen.
It's obvious that the patent system needs an overhaul, but I suspect you are one of those that wants to do away with all patents and all copyrights. My guess is that you've never had an original idea, and thus have never felt the need for any protection.
Go ahead and mod me down for not conforming to anti-IP attitude that abounds here.
I think you got it. The images I saw didn't display what I would recognize as normal chromatic aberration. It was a weird kind of bloom on the edges of some bright red chinese lanterns. I'll tell my buddy, but I think he already got rid of the camera ( the sony 828, if I remember correctly).
Yeah, I went to ustpo.gov already, and I am too stupid to use their search engine to find kodak's digital imaging patents. Thanks for noticing.
There are so many ACs, and so few of them are helpful.
Anyway, it's really not out of laziness that I haven't been able to find anything at uspto.gov. It someone would take pity on poor stupid me and provide some numbers or, even better, links, I'd really appreciate it.
*Write a press release
Re: your sidepoint: I thought we're commies or hippies.
But did you use "123-456-7890" as your phone number when you registered your domain?
;n)
Individually, all of these elements are innocent. Put together, while they might still turn out to be innocent, they certainly appear suspicious. Anderer, MS, and SCO could certainly dispel these suspicions if there was nothing to them and they wanted to. My guess is that they've got to get their stories straight, first.
Damn, you said it way better than I did in a post down below.
Anyway, does anyone know the numbers of the patents in question? It'd be nice to review them myself, rather than guess at what they are.
Nonsense Patentism
You should patent that phrase.
Are you actually complaining about the creation of U.S. jobs? Think of all the lawyers Kodak and other companies will have to hire! I'm thinking of going to law school, so I can have a career that won't be outsourced.
Technology is always obvious in retrospect.
Maybe they'd be doing sony a favor by forcing them to use Kodak CCDs. I have a friend who bought a Sony. He's getting weird purple fringing in backlit areas of his images.