Craig Birkmaier wrote: > Why would the creation of a new MPEG-2 level help anyone? It would help only if it existing encoding systems and/or receivers, or a large percentage of these, can be updated easily. Otherwise, of course, might as well bite the bullet and introduce a new codec. Ditto if the stream won't fit in existing DTV channels. The ITU paper said that the advantage of using MPEG-2 in the 1080 at 60p mode was cost. Quoting: "A large number of display and capturing devices will support 1080@60p/50p in the near future and it is urgently desired to add support for these video formats in the existing MPEG standard. Complexity is one of the biggest issues for such applications, especially for software solution. Although AVC(14496-10 | H.264) supports such video formats, complexity is too high for some applications, especially simple software based applications, because of high demand of CPU and memory resources. In addition, it is not always possible to assign the entirety of the available CPU resource to the video decoder in some applications. We believe that there is a great demand for MPEG-2 video, especially for software based solutions. MPEG-2 video is the appropriate format for such applications, in terms of both complexity and picture quality." > This is backward looking legacy technology trying to sole a > problem that has already been solved with better technology. If you open the other zipped files, you'll see that they are also adding AVC modes. For studio or ultra high def purposes. "Legacy technology" is *always* considered, Craig. It's called "good engineering." Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.