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Dirac 1.0 released (an advanced royalty-free video compression format from BBC)
- wmf 18y agoA more accurate headline would be dirac-research codebase (which should only be used by codec researchers, not users) 1.0 released. The version that users should use (Schroedinger) hit 1.0 a while ago.
- newt0311 18y agoHow does this compression format compare against H.264 (ignoring licensing and patent issues)?
- ComputerGuru 18y agoHowever, it promises significant savings in bandwidth and improvements in quality over these codecs, by some claims even superior to those promised by the latest generation of codecs such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or SMPTE's VC-1 (which is based on Microsoft's WMV 9). Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)