MPEG-2 & LIGOS "GoMotion"

[Jerry Jones]

http://www.emediapro.net/EM1999/ozer9.html

Very nice article by Jan Ozer in
latest Emedia Professional Magazine.

[RoGuE]

Interesting article.

However, they are actually talking about Ligos LSX-MPEG not GoMotion.

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aka Chris H

[Jerry Jones]

>However, they are actually talking
>about Ligos LSX-MPEG and not GoMotion.


I am unable to discern any distinction
between Ligos's LSX-MPEG Encoder 3.0
and "GoMotion" other than the fact
GoMotion is being licensed to 3rd
party software vendors as a codec while
LSX-MPEG 3.0 is being sold directly to
consumers as a stand alone software
encoder. Beyond that fine distinction,
the technology appears to be the same.
Even the Ligos Press Release mentions the
two in the same breath:

http://www.ligos.com/news/pr_ulead.shtm

[RoGuE]

Fair comment.

However, LSX is a transcoder, GoMotion is a real time encoder.

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aka Chris H

[Jerry Jones]

>go motion is a real time encoder.

Hmmm. Interesting. Not sure I fully
grasp what this means for DV video.
But I'm intrigued.

Are you suggesting the GoMotion software codec essentially does the same thing as
the C-Cube Microsystems chip? DV-to-MPEG-2 without transcoding?

[RoGuE]

That is my understanding, yes. However, the only time I've used 'GoMotion' was with the Voodoo3 3500TV - and the quality sucked, big time. I was informed by Ligos that the ATI All-in-Wonder-128 Pro is a much better implementation of GoMotion.

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aka Chris H