[stella] OT: Codecs

[Glenn Saunders <cybpunks2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:29 PM 7/30/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> DiVx is terrible! The places I hang out on IRC we rip music videos off
> digital television (or sometimes vhs) and into mpg format.. VCD or SVCD..

One of the limitations of VCD (the standard) is that it's limited to 
352x240 30fps.  That's fine for movie transfers I guess, but for video 
sourced stuff it's throwing away half the framerate and half the 
resolution.  It's no wonder then that the resulting picture looks okay, 
because the datarate necessary to push that resolution is relatively low 
compared to DVD.

SVCD sounds nice, but then you don't have a lot of space available for it 
on a single CD.

I haven't tried any DivX encoders so I am not qualified to judge it vs. 
others.  But I have seen one movie online on DivX (American Beauty) and it 
had a dithered look to it, which was more acceptable to me than the typical 
blocky JPEG artefacting associated with MPEG and MJPEG-based codecs.

The new DVD+RW drives will be able to record video directly, analog to 
digital, onto the drives, in realtime.  That looks like it will become the 
format of the future for high quality consumer video.

> On the other hand, DiVx isn't even a standard.

Popularity has a way of deciding standards regardless of what standards 
bodies dictate.



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