[opendtv] Re: News: Video board approves Apple-supported codecs

Four new profiles were added to H.264/AVC this last July, including one ("High 
Profile") that offers new coding tools that in some
cases offer improved coding efficiency and/or quality over the Main Profile 
that was completed the year before.

Also, while it is true that H.264/AVC evolved from H.26L, there were a large 
number of new tools added along the way.

- Tom McMahon (Co-Chair, H.264/AVC Fidelity Range Extensions ("FRExt") 
Amendment AHG).

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At 1:26 PM -0500 11/22/04, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
>"'The investment we made in the MPEG-4 standard is paying off 
>incredible dividends for QuickTime and for Apple,' Frank Casanova, 
>Apple's director of QuickTime product marketing, told MacCentral. 
>'Allowing the ISO the use our file format has turned out to be the best 
>decisions we could have made.'"
>
>Is this for real? Anyone know?

Yes, it's for real. The MPEG-4 container format is *based on* QT's container 
format. It's not exactly the same but it's closer to QT
than to any other media format, because, of course, QT had the only flexible 
container format.

Microsoft were somewhat bent out of shape when QT was accepted as the container 
format (hence the MS attempt to hijack MPEG-4 a few
years back before they started calling it Windows Media).

Can't comment about the history of H.264 but the final standards are around a 
year old.

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