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• Anomalie #3872 : urls et

  20 janvier 2017, par denis -

  Titre de la rubrique -> #128 - 15 ans !

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• Announcing TMPGEnc 4 : now with x264 !

  26 novembre 2010, par Dark Shikari — commercial, japan, licensing, x264

  A few months ago, we announced a commercial licensing program so that even companies unable to use GPL software in their products have a chance to use the open source x264 instead of proprietary alternatives. The system worked on two basic concepts. First, all licensees would still be required to give their changes to x264 back to us : x264 must forever remain free, with no useful contributions kept hidden from the community. Second, all the profits would go directly back to x264, primarily to the developers who’ve made the most significant contributions to x264 over the years, but also to funding future development, bounties for new features, as well as contributing to other related projects (e.g. Videolan and ffmpeg).

  Over the past couple of months, we’ve gotten an enormous response ; over 40 companies have inquired about licensing, with more contacting us every day. Due to the sheer volume of interest, we’ve partnered with CoreCodec, the creators of the free Matroska container format and developers of CoreAVC, to make x264 as widely available as possible in the world of commercial software as it is in the world of open source. All of this is already filtering back to benefiting x264 users, with many bugs being reported by commercial licensees as well as some code contributed.

  Today, we announce the first commercial consumer encoding software to switch to x264 : Pegasys Inc.’s TMPGEnc. Expect many more to follow : with x264 now available commercially as well as freely, there are few excuses left to use any other H.264 encoder. Vendors of overpriced, underpowered proprietary competitors should begin looking for new jobs.

  (Pegasys press release : English, Japanese)

• VP8 for Real-time Video Applications

  15 février 2011, par noreply@blogger.com (John Luther)

  With the growing interest in videoconferencing on the web platform, it’s a good time to explore the features of VP8 that make it an exceptionally good codec for real-time applications like videoconferencing.

  VP8 Design History & Features

  Real-time applications were a primary use case when VP8 was designed. The VP8 encoder has features specifically engineered to overcome the challenges inherent in compressing and transmitting real-time video data.
  

  • Processor-adaptive encoding. 16 encoder complexity levels automatically (or manually) adjust encoder features such as motion search strategy, quantizer optimizations, and loop filtering strength.
  • Encoder can be configured to use a target percentage of the host CPU.
    Ability to measure the time taken to encode each frame and adjust encoder complexity dynamically to keep the encoding time per frame constant
  • Robust error recovery (packet retransmission, forward error correction, recovery frame/new keyframe requests)
  • Temporal scalability (i.e., a single video bitstream that can degrade as needed depending on a participant’s available bandwidth)
  • Highly efficient decoding performance on low-power devices. Conventional video technology has grown to a state of complexity where dedicated hardware chips are needed to make it work well. With VP8, software-based solutions have proven to meet customer needs without requiring specialized hardware.

  For a more information about real-time video features in VP8, see the slide presentation by WebM Project engineer Paul Wilkins (PDF file).

  Commercially Available Products

  Millions of people around the world have been using VP7/8 for video chat for years. VP8 is deployed in some of today’s most popular consumer videoconferencing applications, including Skype (group video calling), Sightspeed, ooVoo and Logitech Vid. All of these vendors are active WebM project supporters. VP8’s predecessor, VP7, has been used in Skype video calling since 2005 and is supported in the new Skype app for iPhone. Other real-time VP8 implementations are coming soon, including ooVoo, and VP8 will play a leading role in Google’s plans for real-time applications on the web platform.

  Real-time applications will be extremely important as the web platform matures. The WebM community has made significant improvements in VP8 for real-time use cases since our launch and will continue to do so in the future.

  John Luther is Product Manager of the WebM Project.