I wasn't sure where to put this since it relates to drivers from every hardware vendor, but since Dirac is completely open and royalty-free and all that, and especially because I guess it's better than Theora video, it's now totally free to implement acceleration for it in the open source video drivers that are out there, as well of course as the close source ones.
I was wondering what Intel, AMD, and Nvidia would have to say about Dirac and Theora support. Supposedly Dirac is even more "powerful" than H264, WMV, etc, or has the potential to be at least. I've been experimenting with Dirac encoding and so far it seems quite impressive.
Decoding has finally been implemented in VLC, MPlayer, and the GStreamer framework (Totem, etc), and so far I assume MPlayer has the encoder implemented but I know that OggConvert does (many or all of these programs are using the Schroedinger library implementation), which is a great and very easy to use Gnome program. Currently there is a bug that makes it hang though when trying to convert anything to Dirac that has audio in it, but that bug and some others should be gone in the next version.
Any way, I just thought it was exciting and I think Dirac should take off since it's an entirely open codec in comparison to the legally encumbered alternatives for "high definition" movies. I prefer sticking to the open codecs so that, for starters, stupid lawyer companies like the one that "owns" the copyright on MP3 won't come after developers. Give developers a break, use safe codecs to encode/decode!
I was wondering what Intel, AMD, and Nvidia would have to say about Dirac and Theora support. Supposedly Dirac is even more "powerful" than H264, WMV, etc, or has the potential to be at least. I've been experimenting with Dirac encoding and so far it seems quite impressive.
Decoding has finally been implemented in VLC, MPlayer, and the GStreamer framework (Totem, etc), and so far I assume MPlayer has the encoder implemented but I know that OggConvert does (many or all of these programs are using the Schroedinger library implementation), which is a great and very easy to use Gnome program. Currently there is a bug that makes it hang though when trying to convert anything to Dirac that has audio in it, but that bug and some others should be gone in the next version.
Any way, I just thought it was exciting and I think Dirac should take off since it's an entirely open codec in comparison to the legally encumbered alternatives for "high definition" movies. I prefer sticking to the open codecs so that, for starters, stupid lawyer companies like the one that "owns" the copyright on MP3 won't come after developers. Give developers a break, use safe codecs to encode/decode!
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