dRD
7th March 2002, 17:41
Ok, you can finally change your AVIs to use MPEG-4 structure instead, but how about the actual encoding? Is it truly ISO MPEG-4 specs compliant?
I've ran few tests, encoded stuff with DivX5, converted them to MPEG-4 structure, etc and none of the clips plays with video players supposed to handle MPEG-4 ISO video correctly (without using system codecs, obviously) -- one of the players I tested was from Philips and it worked nicely with all the test MPEG-4 clips from various sites, but none of the DivX5 clips worked.
So, does this mean that now we have some ***ppy almost-compliant video format using .mp4 extension and making people to think that those work with any MPEG-4 decoder or did someone actually got it working?
Thing is really that DivX needs to be standard-compliant in order to get into big boys' games -- Real and MS can afford to play with their propietary hacks, but others can't.
I've ran few tests, encoded stuff with DivX5, converted them to MPEG-4 structure, etc and none of the clips plays with video players supposed to handle MPEG-4 ISO video correctly (without using system codecs, obviously) -- one of the players I tested was from Philips and it worked nicely with all the test MPEG-4 clips from various sites, but none of the DivX5 clips worked.
So, does this mean that now we have some ***ppy almost-compliant video format using .mp4 extension and making people to think that those work with any MPEG-4 decoder or did someone actually got it working?
Thing is really that DivX needs to be standard-compliant in order to get into big boys' games -- Real and MS can afford to play with their propietary hacks, but others can't.