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| I understand that. lets say I *pay* for a h.264 codec from vendor. the new format should be in some respects like QT, its a container for data. if I install a codec, then the data can be turned into picture. I'm not asking for explicit h264/5, but rather the option it can be in the container. having some built in standard codecs is great but what happens when some spiffy new codec shows up a year from now that we all might want to use ? if there is a codec component like QT, its an easy install. if its purely built into the libs for POM then adding it require an update of POM rather than just installing the codec into POM's codec component folder. Dirac is an interesting codec to be sure and could be a nice solution if quality and speed is there. for a very long time I never trusted apple not to either kill ProRes, come out with ProRes II, or in some way horribly screw it up. However, with the wide adoption of ProRes into cameras and even some PC based products its become its own monster. its hard to picture that at some point they don't release some spec for it or really license it more freely / cheaply including more options for PC that aren't limited to only specifc apps. Steve Oakley 920 544 2230c DP • Sound • Colorist • Editor NY/LA/WI/ Where ever you fly me On May 14, 2014, at 10:51 AM, Brendan Bolles <brendan@fnordware.com> wrote: On May 13, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Steve Oakley wrote:well h.264 is an interesting question. while often thought of as a very compressed long GOP format, it can be iframe, 10/12+ bits, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4 with a high enough bit rate to be near lossless. |
