AMT MPEG-4

[bond]

just found this site of a firm developing a mpeg-4 codec it seems (they love to talk about their stuff as if they reinvented the wheal + managed to keep compatibility with old mpeg-4 compliant players (oh my god, it really must be a breaktrough technology!!! :rolleyes: ))

maybe you guys want to check out their samples (.amt extension - is this simply .avi, .mp4 or raw mpeg-4 video?) and their player (installs directshow filters?) here (http://www.amt.tv/download.htm)

[Nic]

It says you need a password to download the files, the link to the streaming files are, for example:
http://www.amt.tv/video/xmen_clip_1.ams

Now I wonder what the link to the .amt files would be? ;) Appears I don't need the password...

Downloading now, i'll let you know. :)

-Nic

[nicco]

AMT/MPEG-2 codec


Achieves DVD-quality at 1.6 – 2 Mbit/s (full resolution)

Best proprietary MPEG-2 codec in the world

Fully compatible with standard MPEG-2 codecs

Full playback compliance on all DVD-players in the world



AMT/MPEG-4 codec

Achieves DVD-quality at 0.5 Mbit/s (full resolution)

Superior in performance over all other proprietary MPEG-4 codecs

Fully compatible with standard MPEG-4 codecs

Full playback on all MPEG-4 supported DVD-players



AMT Pro codec

AMTs new super video codec

Achieves DVD-quality at 250 – 300 kbit/s (full resolution)

Probably the best proprietary video codec in the world

:sly:
Should I believe them?

[CruNcher]

Achieves DVD-quality at 0.5 Mbit/s (full resolution) <- sure and im the pope :D
also strange that all the clips are in 640x480 lol

[SeeMoreDigital]

I tried the first two clips.... I would hardly describe it as a "streaming" experience, as the entire clip had to be buffered before playback commenced.

Once buffered, the first (350Kbps) clip was 10.6MB and 3m 17sec in duration. And the second (450Kbps) clip was, 12.2MB and 3m 00sec in duration

Both clips were very low motion scenes, so it's difficult to tell if the codec is any good or not!

Anybody else..

[Ark]

250-300kbps > full resolution > DVD quality???

Maybe is MPEG-16/AVC Super Ultra Extreme World Destruction Edition :D, or maybe they've mistaken "DVD" for "VCD" :D

...or maybe they say the truth :eek:

[Nic]

Well having a quick look thru:

The AMT files have they're own header at least of AMTC, and I don't recognise any StartCodes (but I haven't looked hard), so maybe it's encrypted(?)

The Media Player executable is packed and encrypted too, but if I find a moment, i'll unpack it and decrypt it.

Not that i'm a cynic or anything, but i'm willing to take bets on finding xvid/skal code in there ;) lol

-Nic

[Soulhunter]

Originally posted by Nic

...but i'm willing to take bets on finding xvid/skal code in there ;) lol

Well, at least their statement would be true then... :D

Superior in performance over all other proprietary MPEG-4 codecs


Bye

[Leak]

Originally posted by bond
here (http://www.amt.tv/download.htm)

Uh, okay...

Leif Eriksson - Chairman of the Board (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Erikson)

Didn't he discover Iceland or something? :D

np: David Holmes - Everybody Knows (The Free Association)

[bond]

lol :D

nic, would be nice to find out more about it ;)

[LordRPI]

Saw that too. Some of the wording was changed after we picked up on it at the DivX.com forum.. I presume somebody from DXN must have contacted them.

[JLPC]

Available here :

http://www.nyteknik.se/skrivUt.asp?art_id=38462

[Doom9]

that article doesn't really say anything new. Better than MPEG-4, we've heard that for a while. Better than MPEG-4 but still compatible, that's about all that's new, and without encoder to verify that, it should be discarded as the usual PR blablah unless independent verification has taken place.

[JLPC]

Let´s wait and see.
They seem relly concerned about protecting it adding cost using a dongle.

That in my book is proof of confidence or "ultrastupid".

[JohnV]

Hope we have some AMT developers appearing here soon.. :)

[708145]

Damn, and I already ordered one bottle of their snake oil :p

bis besser,
Tobias

[Leak]

Originally posted by 708145
Damn, and I already ordered one bottle of their snake oil :p

Noooooooooooo~! *WHAT* *WERE* *YOU* *THINKING*!?1ßeins

:D

np: Strictly Kev - Raiding the 20th Century - A History of The Cutup (18/01/04 XFM The Remix)

[DeathTheSheep]

Well, I'm willing to bet that it's really MPEG-5 SUEWDE as well...

Yeah... Good old suewde... Look out nero and vp7... Maybe you'll be part of the "wd." ;-) lol

[ajp]

Another Swedish article about it posted today...

http://www.idg.se/ArticlePages/200502/03/20050203124932_CS/20050203124932_CS.dbp.asp

[Latexxx]

Is memory card really minneskort in Swedish?

[ajp]

Originally posted by Latexxx
Is memory card really minneskort in Swedish?

Yupp, does it sound that strange? :)