Comments on: Dirac at the IBC http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/ Just another GNOME Blogs weblog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:18:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: makomk http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/comment-page-1/#comment-1785 makomk Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:30:03 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/#comment-1785 The Olympics have always been a rights minefield. Officially, there are all sorts of insane rules about things like who can use the term "Olympics", going far beyond trademark law. It's interesting that it was considered safe to refer to it as "Beijing 2008" - companies have got into legal trouble for far vaguer references before. The Olympics have always been a rights minefield. Officially, there are all sorts of insane rules about things like who can use the term “Olympics”, going far beyond trademark law. It’s interesting that it was considered safe to refer to it as “Beijing 2008″ – companies have got into legal trouble for far vaguer references before.

]]> By: Joseph http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/comment-page-1/#comment-1784 Joseph Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:40:38 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/#comment-1784 Tristan: the dirac encoder is *so* cool that it even performs psychodelicious modeling, enabling it to gain even greater compression than any competing codec, by throwing out the boring parts. Tristan: the dirac encoder is *so* cool that it even performs psychodelicious modeling, enabling it to gain even greater compression than any competing codec, by throwing out the boring parts.

]]> By: Joseph http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/comment-page-1/#comment-1783 Joseph Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:39:29 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/#comment-1783 Wish NBC had gone with Dirac for their Olympicks coverage (deliberately misspelled to avoid copyright issues) Wish NBC had gone with Dirac for their Olympicks coverage (deliberately misspelled to avoid copyright issues)

]]> By: uraeus http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/comment-page-1/#comment-1782 uraeus Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:28:07 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/#comment-1782 @Giacomo: we are going to put a Dirac version of BBB onto diracvideo.org as soon as the BBC guys are back from IBC @Tristan: seems to be some seeking bug in the ts demuxer, it will be looked into. @Giacomo: we are going to put a Dirac version of BBB onto diracvideo.org as soon as the BBC guys are back from IBC

@Tristan: seems to be some seeking bug in the ts demuxer, it will be looked into.

]]> By: Tristan http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/comment-page-1/#comment-1780 Tristan Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:08:34 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/#comment-1780 Um... is Big Buck Bunny really 1 hour 33 minutes long when encoded using Dirac? ;-) Giacomo: I don't know of a downloadable version of BBB in Dirac, but instructions for doing it yourself (via GStreamer and Schroedinger) can be found on the wiki at www.diracvideo.org/wiki Um… is Big Buck Bunny really 1 hour 33 minutes long when encoded using Dirac? ;-)

Giacomo: I don’t know of a downloadable version of BBB in Dirac, but instructions for doing it yourself (via GStreamer and Schroedinger) can be found on the wiki at http://www.diracvideo.org/wiki

]]> By: Giacomo http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/comment-page-1/#comment-1779 Giacomo Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:49:56 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2008/09/15/dirac-at-the-ibc/#comment-1779 Hello. Is the Dirac version of BBB available somewhere? I'd like to try it and compare it with the clips available from the website. Hello. Is the Dirac version of BBB available somewhere? I’d like to try it and compare it with the clips available from the website.

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