[RUMOR] New VC codec prepared as an answer

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by Elandyll

That has been started on Engadgethd by a "supposedly" Gamestop vendor, the info coming originally from their Microsoft Rep.
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First, the release of a "VC 2.1 codec". According to that same person, this codec allows such a compression boost that, when compared to curent gen codec, you can have 50 Gb down to 18Gb, with the same visual quality or better (2.77 ratio). Also, according to him, this "magical" codec is so advanced and sophisticated, that current machines can decode it -faster- than VC1, allowing faster loading, and faster parsing through pictures.

So this is a factor of 2.77 beyond the already 30 to 75+ compression factor already in use (i.e., 83 to 200+ compression factor giving as little as 0.1 bits per pixel per frame)?
I rank this right up there with Amir and Hmurch claiming that VC-1 at can be hand tweaked to make 9 Mbps, on average, indistinguishable from the 1080p master.

Originally Posted by kjack

Good point, forgot about that. Plus, as I recall, SMPTE already used "VC-2", "VC-3", etc. for other video codecs being submitted for standards consideration, that had nothing to do with VC-1 or Microsoft.

The only new technology of which I am aware is based upon MCTF (motion compensated temporal filtering) and to my knowledge Microsoft holds none of the patents on that. Besides, it will not give a factor of 2.77 beyond H.264 AVC.

Kjack: Are either of the proposed VC-2 or VC-3, etc. variants based upon SVC? That could be a logical next step, but it won't be anywhere near the improvement this article is claiming.