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Old Mar 28, 2006, 03:04 PM   #1
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Do you know what H.264 is?
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Old Mar 28, 2006, 03:28 PM   #2
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sooo... what is it? I know roughly but honestly, it's just sorta beyond me
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Old Mar 28, 2006, 03:36 PM   #3
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Correct me if I'm wrong...

Its a new video codec, otherwise known as MPEG-4 (part 10), that allows for further compression of video at higher resolutions. Meaning you get better video quality with less size. Can't really spout off the technical stuff, but thats about the jest I think.
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Old Mar 28, 2006, 04:10 PM   #4
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264
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Old Mar 28, 2006, 04:56 PM   #5
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I read an article about it recently, so I know what it is (a new MPEG-4 video codec), but I can't really tell if all the fuss that ATi, nVidia and a bunch of other companies are making is really justified.
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Old Mar 28, 2006, 07:03 PM   #6
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new codec that is used in .ts hdtv streams
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Old Mar 28, 2006, 07:15 PM   #7
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Ok I know now
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 02:18 AM   #8
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I read an article about it recently, so I know what it is (a new MPEG-4 video codec), but I can't really tell if all the fuss that ATi, nVidia and a bunch of other companies are making is really justified.
its the new standart for everything video.. All TV, all internet video, all HD DVD stuff, even on mobile devices.
thats why hardware decoding is so important since it would be very cpu intensive.hardware decoding is a must for slow devices.
whoever does it cheapest and best will get loads of deals for PC, mobile devices, TV and DVD recorders and decoders/players etc.

lot of money to be made.
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 05:19 AM   #9
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h.264 rules in terms of image quality and it is a new standard for the hi-bitrate and h-resolutions HDTV play and it is very important that the nVidia pure video filters support it as with HW decoding, since it is impossible to be decoded with CPU, when come to full HDTV stream and customer (not extreme overclockers) range of CPU's

PS. I love the image quality
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 01:57 PM   #10
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What a strange poll. Once you read the thread you know what it is.. >yawn<
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 03:49 PM   #11
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Now i know...
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 04:03 PM   #12
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your ipod and PSP use it also...
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Old Mar 29, 2006, 04:25 PM   #13
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Quicktime 7 uses it.... ...it's a codec which supposedly improves picture quality greatly

what prize do I get?
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Old Mar 30, 2006, 10:53 AM   #14
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Old Mar 30, 2006, 01:03 PM   #15
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I knew it was some kind of a codec, but I honestly don't know it's significance

you're gonna tell us though, right?
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Old Mar 30, 2006, 10:23 PM   #16
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I have seen some of its use in proprietary VOIP phones with built in video, leading to a confusing but accurate acronym of Video Over Internet Protocol. This is were I believe that some of the most interesting and ground breaking facets will come from. Full (NTSC/PAL or SECAM) television broadcasts compressed to an amount smaller then their DIVX counterparts, while retaining almost all of their image quality. I have done some coding (mostly in Linux to keep it open source) and the protocol is amazing with its video conferencing ability and I do not believe that television both today's standard and Hi-Def can be far behind.
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Old Apr 1, 2006, 07:08 PM   #17
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A protocol for encoding video digitally. Note that H.264 is not the content, but is used to encode the content for storage or transmission and is very flexible.
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Old Apr 1, 2006, 09:46 PM   #18
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A new video codec, some of my recent video downloads are in that format... man did that took me a while to figure out.

Personally I still perfer the old & trusty Divx & Xvid format over this new one. Much less CPU usage and I personally can't tell that much of a difference in quality between a good quality Divxs/Xvids with a good quality H.264.

Also H.264 doesn't play on my chinese DVD player , but Divx & Xvids does
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Old Apr 1, 2006, 10:36 PM   #19
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i just heard about it
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Old Apr 5, 2006, 07:04 PM   #20
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What i want to know is who actually created it...
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Old Apr 5, 2006, 08:00 PM   #21
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Old Apr 5, 2006, 08:35 PM   #22
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What i want to know is who actually created it...

Mpeg LA? I think.

H.264 is now mandatory for the HD-DVD and Blu-ray specifications so was it them who invented it?
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Old Apr 6, 2006, 09:42 PM   #23
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Default Post вот такие дела...
ПриветЯ регулярно тренируюсь и перед началом тренировки обязательно делаю пробежку. Чтобы не было скучно, я постоянно меняю маршрут. НО! Очень мешают собачники прогуливающиеся с собаками, мешают, конечно же не граждане, а их любимцы. Приходится бегать по дорогам. В других местах везде эти собаки - всех мастей. Я сам собак люблю и оптимально было бы конечно завести собаку и бегать с ней, но у меня у ребёнка астма и вариант иметь собаку заведомо невозможен. Я собак не боюсь, но когда бежишь рядом с булем или чем-то подобным... - не хочется проблем с травмами и последующими заморочками. Что тут делать? Подруга скинула ссылку на сайт http://www.dazer.msk.ru - отпугиватель собак, действует на расстоянии. Она очень хвалит, кто-нибудь им пользовался? У меня есть электрошок, но применять его можно только контактно, надо быть близко к нападающей собаке, а это опасно..
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ПриветЯ регулярно тренируюсь и перед началом тренировки обязательно делаю пробежку. Чтобы не было скучно, я постоянно меняю маршрут. НО! Очень мешают собачники прогуливающиеся с собаками, мешают, конечно же не граждане, а их любимцы. Приходится бегать по дорогам. В других местах везде эти собаки - всех мастей. Я сам собак люблю и оптимально было бы конечно завести собаку и бегать с ней, но у меня у ребёнка астма и вариант иметь собаку заведомо невозможен. Я собак не боюсь, но когда бежишь рядом с булем или чем-то подобным... - не хочется проблем с травмами и последующими заморочками. Что тут делать? Подруга скинула ссылку на сайт http://www.dazer.msk.ru - отпугиватель собак, действует на расстоянии. Она очень хвалит, кто-нибудь им пользовался? У меня есть электрошок, но применять его можно только контактно, надо быть близко к нападающей собаке, а это опасно..
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Old Apr 7, 2006, 10:19 AM   #25
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Yup, it's a next generation video compression standard. Basically, it's much more efficient at compressing video, but it makes it more difficult to encode/decode. That's where ATI comes in with our hardware accelerated decode
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Hello AVIVO Guru! Would you mind answering a few questions I have about ATi's AVC acceleration on X1000 parts? *quickly & quietly shackles his leg to a column, locks the door, then turns the hot lamps on*

First off, if the acceleration is shader based why don't we see a larger performance gain when going from a single quad part like the X1300 to a X1900 which of course has a much, much more shader power? Is the AVIVO team working to improve the performance of ATi's AVC acceleration even further? Also, will you be working with other codec developers such as corecodec to make the acceleration available through their AVC decoders?


For others reading AVC = h264 although it's a slightly broader term.
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