Today's high-definition sources are scrunched down with MPEG-2, a long-lived standard also used by DVDs.
Even then we could only manage to stream old school MPEG-1 video to the PS3.
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 SL620 offers users advanced MPEG-4 video recording at a resolution of 640x480.
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That's handy, because rewinding and fast-forwarding MPEG-encoded content gives blockier and less precise results than you get with traditional camcorders.
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.
Oh, and guess what a significant portion of that proposed standard, MPEG-4 (as in Moving Picture Experts Group), happens to be based on?
In the end, he came up with the MPEG-3 technology that spawned the MP3 file-sharing music revolution, the ultimate prize for music fans.
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.
Adobe streaming technologies will support MPEG-DASH, a set of emerging standards for streaming multimedia content over the Web that will help reduce technology fragmentation.
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.
Thom Holwerda at OS News notes that MPEG-LA has been threatening to sue over Theora for a while now, and has yet to do so.
Good old Neuros, makers of such products as the 442 PMP and MPEG-4 recorder, are getting all gushy with open source again.
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DirecTV continues to roll out MPEG-4 local channels in HD across the country, today announcing 25 markets that will be added during the fourth quarter.
But newer algorithms offered by the likes of RealNetworks, Microsoft and the MPEG-4 consortium promise to compress content down to significantly fewer bits without sacrificing quality.
Not only does it play back MP3 music files, but it also can record live audio and shoot and display digital still photos and MPEG-4 video.
Support for MPEG-DASH, which is expected to become a profile of HDS, comes as Adobe continues to collaborate in this area with a large number of industry partners.
The camera shoots MPEG-4 video at a rate of 30 frames per second and includes an integrated Web server software package, an integrated microphone and a motion detection sensor.
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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They use an MPEG-4 video codec to keep the file size down, but either way you're still going to need a mighty Memory Stick to store all those extra clips you'll be recording.
Sure, they pack in a superb 2.5-inch 960 x 240 pixel display capable of 262K colors in a PMP capable of both MPEG-4 playback and recording at up to 640 x 480 pixels.
"HEVC, which will be known as MPEG-5 or H.265, will be required to broadcast UltraHD content, notably major sporting events and Hollywood content, " said Michael Inouye, Senior Analyst of TV and Video, ABI Research.
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