Dirac 1.0.0 Released 127
dylan_- writes "According to their website, 'Dirac is an advanced royalty-free video compression format designed for a wide range of uses, from delivering low-resolution web content to broadcasting HD and beyond, to near-lossless studio editing.' Now a stable version of the dirac-research codebase, Dirac 1.0.0, has been released. The BBC have already successfully used the new codec during the Beijing Olympics and are looking to push it to more general use throughout the organisation. The latest version of VLC (the recently released 0.9.2) has support for Dirac using the Schroedinger library."
Great, but... (Score:5, Funny)
I tried using the Schrodinger library but I'm uncertain it works. Plus, I can't find my cat.
Re:Great, but... (Score:5, Funny)
Plus, I can't find my cat.
Be glad for that, as long as you dont you might still have one.
Re:Open source overkill (Score:5, Funny)
The Schrodinger software is available under any of the GPLv2, MIT or MPL licences. Libraries may also be used under LGPL.
Sounds like someone wanted there to be no question about whether it was open source.
Sounds to me like the license exists in multiple states at once, which may be exactly the way Schrodinger would have liked it.
Re:Great, but... (Score:3, Funny)
I had success integrating Dirac, and got a result of 1.
Re:Great, but... (Score:5, Funny)
I tried using the Schrodinger library but I'm uncertain it works. Plus, I can't find my cat.
I hate to tell you, but your cat is dead. And/or not.
Re:For low values of success (Score:3, Funny)
And I thought that was some kind of UK New Wave artsy Duane Hopkins/dogma thing they were going for.
Once again, I mistake incompetence for artistic innovation.
Re:Great, but... (Score:4, Funny)
You may have loaded libheisenberg instead. They sometimes become entangled.
Re:0xBBCD (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Performance? Benefits? (Score:2, Funny)
The codec is new, give it a few months.
Early DVDs looked like shitty 90% compressed jpegs too, you know.
Re:top gear = rockin' :) (Score:3, Funny)
Thanks for your support, TV licensees of Britain!
Uh, that's OK. Just send me some money, and I'll make sure it gets passed on to the right pub... I mean people.
Dirac? Schrodinger? wha...? (Score:2, Funny)
Who needs to compress time, when all you hafta do is compress the video.
If I took a video of my cat, and then compressed it with this new codec, would the cat be...
Umm.. never mind...!
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