[opendtv] Re: FW: Intel Will Lead Us to à la Carte Pay TV

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 07:48:00 -0500

At 2:26 PM +0000 2/27/13, Mike Tsinberg wrote:

Thanks Bert,

As far as compression what role H.264 or MPEG2 played in your opinion?
MPEG-2 is not a factor at all. The biggest problem is the high licensing fees; second, the high bit budgets required. Basically, it is only supported by broadcasters and the MVPDs, and standard DVD.
H.264 is playing a HUGE role, as it is the first standards based codec to see wide usage on the Internet, gradually replacing proprietary codecs developed by Duck Corp and others,; the primary driver of these proprietary codecs has been Adobe Flash, which now provides good support for h.264. 

Two main reasons for its emergence:
1. Standards based with a very reasonable royalty basis that made it feasible for the major hardware and OS vendors to include it in their chips and software. Very good hardware acceleration support, which has made it the defacto standard for streaming to mobile devices.
2. Excellent support for low bit rate applications at resolutions not typically used by broadcasters, and in almost all cases using progressive formats for web streaming. 

Regards
Craig


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