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From: Louai Abu-Osba <me@louai.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:43:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: [AE] lossless codec in a container roundup
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Brendan! Do you still plan on doing this?


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Brendan Bolles <brendan@fnordware.com>wrote:

> 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.
> > 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
>
>
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<div dir=3D"ltr">Brendan! Do you still plan on doing this?<div class=3D"gma=
il_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:05 P=
M, Brendan Bolles <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:brendan@fnordware=
.com" target=3D"_blank">brendan@fnordware.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class=3D"im">On Jul 23, 2013, at 3:22 P=
M, Robert Kjettrup wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; 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 w=
hen it never was supported by anything outside BBC.<br>
&gt; 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 othe=
r competing codecs DNxHD, ProRes and Cineform?<br>
&gt; It is even a smpte standard (VC-2).<br>
<br>
<br>
</div>Good question. =A0It can&#39;t be a quality thing, because it goes al=
l the way to lossless. =A0As a wavelet codec, it might be slow. =A0Then aga=
in a few years have gone by and CPUs are faster now. =A0We&#39;ll just have=
 to find out for ourselves.<br>


<br>
Maybe a general mistrust of open source by commercial companies? =A0Ogg Vor=
bis is a totally competitive and free alternative to MP3, but only Linux us=
ers seem to know about it.<br>
<div class=3D"HOEnZb"><div class=3D"h5"><br>
<br>
Brendan<br>
<br>
<br>
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