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[Dave Devereaux-Weber <>]

Marshall,

I'm using a Sony HVRZ1U camera - it doesn't do 1080p.  It does 1080i or SD.

Dave

Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 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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