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elmar3rd

Nov 18 2003, 06:37

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(Denver, Colorado, USA - 17 November 2003) MPEG LA today announced that essential H.264/MPEG-4 AVC patent and patent application holders have reached agreement on the terms of a joint patent license for implementation and use of ITU-T H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC (“AVC Standard”).

http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_03-11-17_avc.html

amano

Nov 18 2003, 22:32

hmm. advanced video coding...

a look at the licence fees made me shake my head. gratefully divx is free and hardware support is widely available. will avc be the next step in video coding? we will see.

kl33per

Nov 18 2003, 22:51

AVC is technically a supieror format then Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile MPEG-4 video but will take more processing power to use. Now that the licensing is set, I'm can't wait till this standard starts to be rolled out.

westgroveg

Nov 19 2003, 01:59

I think I remember reading that DivX 6 will be a H.264 video codec but myself, I can't get over the quality I reach with with XviD using H.263 Quant, Q-Pel & B-Frames for a 2CD rip/high comp test. IMO will be hard to beat the upcoming XviD 1.0.

Gabriel

Nov 19 2003, 03:18

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gratefully divx is free

Divx, beeing an mpeg4 video codec, cannot be free. Someone has to pay for it. The situation is then not different with mpeg4 AVC.

rjamorim

Nov 19 2003, 07:25

QUOTE(amano @ Nov 19 2003, 02:32 AM)

gratefully divx is free and hardware support is widely available.

Hardware support? I only heard of a very small amount of DVD players (mostly Kiss) that support MPEG4 video decoding.

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I think I remember reading that DivX 6 will be a H.264 video codec

From what I heard, it will be similar to H264 but with modifications by DXN that will make it incompatible with the standard. So, it's another company deciding to go the proprietary way...

sven_Bent

Nov 19 2003, 07:28

QUOTE(Gabriel @ Nov 19 2003, 10:18 AM)

Divx, beeing an mpeg4 video codec, cannot be free. Someone has to pay for it. The situation is then not different with mpeg4 AVC.

DivX non-pro is free for personal use.

Divxpro (B-frames Q-pel GMC) you have to pay for

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From what I heard, it will be similar to H264 but with modifications by DXN that will make it incompatible with the standard. So, it's another company deciding to go the proprietary way...

I never really likede divx company after the screwed people with the "openDivx project"

bond

Nov 19 2003, 10:55

the "free" divx5 version comes with adware which means you indirectly have to "pay" for it

and if h264 really becomes the next "dvd" standard (well, thats how the industry works, there will be a new standard for sure as the manufacturers need the people buying these "so badly needed new technologies" all the time) all these non-standard firms will see where they get with their home-brewn codecs...

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