BBC Wavelet Codec 'Dirac'

[Fluff]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/projects/dirac/index.shtml

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dirac

The Dirac Project

Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets, motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with other state of the art codecs.


Hmm, so it is a different technology than MPEG-2.

There are some sample videos on the source forge website.

[SpiralDragon]

hum.. wonder if it will work with avid... will try it out... thanx

[junkmalle]

Why bother? There are so many MPEG4 (wavelets, motion compensation, arithmetic coding) variants already.

[Fluff]

Our TV licence money has to go somewhere. Improvements can always be made. It could be more efficent and better quality than MPEG-4 for the same space?

[Fluff]

http://dirac.sourceforge.net/faq.html

They have a new FAQ.