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atracus
2nd July 2002, 19:08
In May of 2002, RealNetworks, Inc. contracted Lab Acquisition Corporation dba KeyLabs to conduct testing comparing RealNetworks RealVideo 9 (RV9) clips to Windows Media Video 8 (WMV8) clips.

The results show up in the PDF you may download at:

http://sun.sj.net.cn:8080/souxin/software/APR02-015FinalReportVer2.pdf

It's interesting even though it doesn't go straight on what many of us HERE need to know: how large is the gap (because there IS a quality gap) with DivX-MPEG4 + Vorbis; imho it represents a third party's objective work, which btw also let me understand why Doom9 still hasn't published a serious RV9 test/comparison: it's a looooot of work!

If you please, let's read it carefully and share opinions!

[atx]

trbarry
3rd July 2002, 01:16
imho it represents a third party's objective work,

Except that it said that Real got to choose the clips and bit rates, etc.

- Tom