Return-Path: Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5153603 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 24 Jul 2013 02:54:15 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.71] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD55154008 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] lossless codec in a container roundup From: Brendan Bolles In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:05:29 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <65868771-E228-42E8-ACB5-259AF68881E2@fnordware.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Jul 23, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Robert Kjettrup wrote: > And the BBC Dirac Pro codec looks very promising, i remember stumbling = over that some years ago and read somewhat up on it, but forgot about it = when it never was supported by anything outside BBC.=20 > It looks like it has all the features needed in production so what is = holding it back? Is the encoder too slow? Is the quality not up to the = other competing codecs DNxHD, ProRes and Cineform? > It is even a smpte standard (VC-2). Good question. It can't be a quality thing, because it goes all the way = to lossless. As a wavelet codec, it might be slow. Then again a few = years have gone by and CPUs are faster now. We'll just have to find out = for ourselves. Maybe a general mistrust of open source by commercial companies? Ogg = Vorbis is a totally competitive and free alternative to MP3, but only = Linux users seem to know about it. Brendan