I know it's impolite to blow your own trumpet (stop sniggering at the back), but people may be interested in the news report about Dirac that I wrote for DVdoctor.net after attending a BBC R&D open day in early June:
http://www.dvdoctor.net/content/news/news.php?dXJs X3Jldmlld19JRD0xMjc2
From this you'll probably guess that I was impressed with the quality of the footage. It was at least as good as MPEG-2 and WM9, and usable from a quarter of normal resolution right up to high-definition.
Little was said on the day about encoding times but my understanding is that the project's aim is to try to ensure not just good quality but acceptable encoding times - but remember this is still only Alpha code.
Oh, and there's further info in the related support forum thread here (he said, blowing again):
http://forums.dvdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=33961
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I know it's impolite to blow your own trumpet (stop sniggering at the back), but people may be interested in the news report about Dirac that I wrote for DVdoctor.net after attending a BBC R&D open day in early June: http://www.dvdoctor.net/content/news/news.php?dXJs X3Jldmlld19JRD0xMjc2
From this you'll probably guess that I was impressed with the quality of the footage. It was at least as good as MPEG-2 and WM9, and usable from a quarter of normal resolution right up to high-definition.
Little was said on the day about encoding times but my understanding is that the project's aim is to try to ensure not just good quality but acceptable encoding times - but remember this is still only Alpha code.
Oh, and there's further info in the related support forum thread here (he said, blowing again):
http://forums.dvdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=33961