All things related to multicast

[Marshall Eubanks <>]

It seems odd to me to be having this discussion without any
discussion or even mention of bit rates.

I can do 1280 p at 29.97 fps and my little laptop can decode it no  
sweat... if I
encode at 100 kpbs.

Also, coming from the computer / network side of things, I have to  
say that I never
intend to source any interlaced video, at least on my own dime. Why  
use a 70 year old analog
compression technology if you don't have to ?

Regards
Marshall

On Jul 14, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Petr Holub wrote:

> > > I'm keen to see if there are any clients who can display
> > > 1080i in H.264. My current experience with H.264 + QuickTime
> > > is I don't have a machine powerful enough to do that.
> > > Although I can do 720p without any problem with the same codec.
> >
> > Same feel with Real and Windows Media (AKA VC-1). It is no  
> > realistic to
> > expect see H.264 like codec 1080[ip] stream on PC.
>
> Actually, in my experience, the only 1080i streams I'm able to
> render on commodity high-performance PCs are MPEG2
> (and uncompressed ;o) ).
>
> My question was, whether somebody has been more successful
> with any of MPEG-4 and/or AVC (aka H.264) on PC... Or is it
> better say on quad-core G5-based PowerMac?
>
> Thanks,
> Petr
>
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