Today's high-definition sources are scrunched down with MPEG-2, a long-lived standard also used by DVDs.
There is an intense discussion of layers, sectors, modes, error corrections and mpeg-2 video-compression standards.
Many people ( including me) thought Sony was crazy for sticking to MPEG-2 for their Blu-ray offerings.
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It will be a revenue model similar to compact discs or MPEG-2, the standard for digital satellite communications.
Oh, it's crow , and Digigami says they're going to be bringing plenty more for every MPEG-2 doubter.
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Ravisent's CineMaster HDTV software will provide MPEG-2 decoding and displaying of HDTV signals.
So far I have been enjoying H.264, XviD, DivX and MPEG-2 HD clips.
The MPEG-2 pool included 27 patents from nine different organisations and was eventually licensed to no fewer than 1, 518 firms.
The Quicktime CODECs I have been using other than the MPEG-2 CODEC are in beta and all were universal binaries.
The company has designed a relatively cheap chip that is powerful enough to decode digital video (MPEG-2) on the fly and is also programmable.
It also offers a progressive-scan, wide-screen, 60-frame-per-second MPEG-2 format that delivers far less resolution than full-fledged HD, but may work well when transferred to DVD.
Aside from recording over the air HDTV signals in MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MPEG-4, and WMV9, the card also sports "Avivo image quality enhancements" for those less stunning SD broadcasts.
This is in addition to many other codecs supported in software and you can purchase licenses from the Raspberry Pi Store for MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoding for just a few bucks.
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Hint: Sony wants to use MPEG-2, right?
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Microsoft Windows Media Player: This audio and video player supports almost any type of local and streamed multimedia format, including Real Audio, Real Video, QuickTime, MIDI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, AVI, .wav, .mov, .vod, and .au.
That little trick comes courtesy of its DigiJuke browser for searching and tagging the BitTorrent and YouTube content you want downloaded in the appropriate PSP and iPod (MPEG-4), Wii (FLV), or TV (MPEG-2) format for in-home or on-the-go viewing.
Beyond all that, this thing gets energized by a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M ULV processor coupled with the VX800 digital media IGP chipset, which touts full DirectX 9 support and video acceleration for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV9, VC1 and DivX video formats (plus a VMR-capable HD video processor, among other things).
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Some have even gone as far as to state that Sony's strategy of using MPEG-2 and uncompressed PCM audio on single-layer Blu-ray discs may have required too much video compression, resulting in early releases that don't match the sharpness of VC-1 encoded movies available on HD DVD.
The player will support several digital video formats, including MPEG 2, which is the current standard for digital video used on DVD discs and in hard-drive TV recorders like ReplayTV and TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ).
Of course in addition to emulating that massive library of 8-bit goodness, the PMP will also handle MP3, OGG, FLAC, and WAV audio, as well as AVI, MPEG-4 SP, XviD, and DivX video, which you can view on the player's 2.5-inch QVGA screen.
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