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Old 19th November 2008, 20:00   #41  |  Link
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>I don't think too many manufacturers are willing to produce such a device

4.1 support is pretty standard for dedicated AVC decoder ICs.
That doesn't surprise me, but where do all these chips end up? My guess would be licensed Blu Ray players, PS3, Xbox, etc.
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I understand that there is no legal issue in implementing a chip capable of decoding L4.1 video. However considering the primary source of such video is Blu Ray discs, which we aren't supposed to have free access to , I don't think too many manufacturers are willing to produce such a device. Since you are not trying to be a Blu Ray caliber player, I agree that L4.0 should be enough for the average user, which is whom you are targeting with your product.
There really is no conspiracy here. The hardware guys, to the best of my knowledge, don't really think that way. There are all sorts of legimate ways to produce content besides from Blu-Ray rips, and there are likely to be many, many more in the future. Even the CE manufacturers that are connected to content producers like Sony don't really act that way in my experience, FWIW.
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@DigitAl56K: What were the reasons for 4.0 vs. 4.1 when Blu-ray requires 4.1 and thus there are already viable solutions out there to play 4.1 (starting with the few millions of Blu-ray standalones and all the PS3's.. and let's not forget the NMT fraction (though I'm not confident to say they really can handle 4.1). This isn't like when the first DVD players came out that could play more computationally expensive content than DVDs.. the hardware to play 4.1 content is already out in the millions.
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...and let's not forget the NMT fraction (though I'm not confident to say they really can handle 4.1).
I'm happy to confirm that both my (Sigma SMP8634 chip-set based) hardware players are able to play AVC high@L4.1 video streams muxed within: .AVI, .MP4, .TS, .M2TS and .MKV

EDIT: Here's the chip-sets spec: -




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What were the reasons for 4.0 vs. 4.1 when Blu-ray requires 4.1 and thus there are already viable solutions out there to play 4.1 (starting with the few millions of Blu-ray standalones and all the PS3's.. and let's not forget the NMT fraction (though I'm not confident to say they really can handle 4.1).
All of those are high-powered devices that cost (minimum) $200 each, with some of that being subsidized hardware. We also want to see the format supported in STBs and eventually even in portable devices.

Let me ask you this:
  • Will up to 20Mbps AVC give you poor quality 1080?
  • How many device categories will achieve decoding of 20Mbps streams vs. 50Mbps streams in the next few years?
  • Internet streaming anyone? We already did it with Stage6, others are also attempting it. <20Mbps is certainly do-able, and perhaps it's even more plausible with AVC vs. ASP.

Keep in mind the goal: Achieve high quality HD video in as many places as possible with a guarantee around the content experience, including how well your video plays and how much effort you have to expend trying to make it work.

I wonder if some of those asking for 4.1 are archivists above everything else. In this case your archived media is unlikely to operate well except on the desktop or the device category it was originally intended for.

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I'm happy to confirm that both my (Sigma EM8624L chip-set based) hardware players are able to play AVC high@L4.1 video streams muxed within: .AVI, .MP4, .TS, .M2TS and .MKV
Did you encode at 50Mbps?
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The Popcornhour 100 is $179. At Black Friday, we'll have a Blu-ray player for $128.
My first DivX capable player cost me $300 back in the day.

And somehow I don't see the $50 DVD player play DivX7 in the near future...seeing how things developed on the DivX5 front, I find it much more likely that prices will move along the lines of Blu-ray prices and thus I'm asking if it makes sense to try and establish another hardware category that's just below the
already established standard. Does it really make sense for hardware makers to produce two chip lines instead of one, where they have the chance to put the 4.1 chip in millions of devices even today? And from a user perspective, you're repeating history with potential buyers invariably falling into the not compatible or not quite compatible trap. Anyone remember GMC? And that wasn't a particularly important feature to begin with. I feel eerily reminded of the discussion when the DivX certification was first created - only then, the argument about chip cost had more merit as we didn't have a up and coming disc format paving the way for 2 years.

And last time I checked my ISP's website, I could actually have a 50mbit connection. Granted, it's expensive as hell, but there are quite a few places where a 100mbit connection for a reasonable amount of money. And just because the bandwidth isn't there shouldn't mean the hardware shouldn't be able to decode something.. streaming isn't the only way to deliver content (back when the first DivX capable players came out it took me hours upon hours to download 700MB..).

And subsidized? You're talking about the PS3, right? Because the rest of it, the Blu camp is having us pay through the nose now they've done away with the cheap competition.
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Did you encode at 50Mbps?
Actually, I'm playing Blu-ray and HD-DVD back-ups. Along with BBC-HD (DVB-S2) captured streams....

But I'm happy to test any samples you guys may have.
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If the goal is to allow HD video to play on a majority of players. Wouldn't the industry standard m2ts be the answer?

I've never seen any advantage of mkv over bluray other than 6-7% overhead, cropping and internal chapter support, m2ts needs a playlist. None of which I care about if it means lack of current/future playback. I do see some things in m2ts that doesn't exist in mkv like multiple angles and menu support. As for single file playability m2ts plays in the players already mentioned, sometimes it will play while the mkv won't with the same audio\video stream. Why? Because all of these players use chipsets that only support transport streams and a 'software hack' needs to be done to read mkvs, which opens up a possibility of bugs.

As has been stated before, except for a certain group of video enthusiasts mkv isn't used/accepted.
How is the public going to be convinced to buy a divx7 player over a regular player?
Will divx7 players be simply another 'software hack' to current chipsets?
Will there be material you can buy/rent for less than bluray and offer the quality that makes the purchase competitive?
Will the players be competitively priced with the regular players?
Does the video enthusiast really have a reason to encode to divx7 (mkv) over bluray for standalone playback?
Why was mkv chosen over ts (more than likely the HDTV source) as the first HD container before bluray/hddvd existed?

DivX certified players I believe were a big success mainly because the size of the files were fractionally smaller than the DVD itself by using MPEG4 ASP over MPEG2. With DivX7 I don't see this benefit, so I'm looking for something that will get me to bite, as of yet I don't see it.
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But I'm happy to test any samples you guys may have.
1920x1080 29.97fps @ 50000kbps
http://www.mediafire.com/?yd5glzymjdo

It works ok on my 4850 in DXVA mode
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1920x1080 29.97fps @ 50000kbps
http://www.mediafire.com/?yd5glzymjdo

It works ok on my 4850 in DXVA mode
Hi Atak,

Your sample file stutters when left in the .MP4 container. But played fine when re-muxed into the .TS container.

That said.... I reckon it's right on the Sigma's chip-set/board designs limitations.


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1920x1080 29.97fps @ 50000kbps
http://www.mediafire.com/?yd5glzymjdo

It works ok on my 4850 in DXVA mode
Nice. May I ask what HD cam was used?
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Really impressive. Thanks for the info.
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Since Divx will support ASS/SSA subtitles in mkv in the future I'm asking myself wether custom fonts (as mkv attachments) will also be supported or not?
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Don't you have a harder sample? My CPU complained that it has nothing to do playing that video.. the CPU was basically idle and my (passive) 9600GT did all the work. MPC-HC really was worth the upgrade - now playing a 50mbit AVC stream uses as much CPU as playing a lowly 700MB XviD rip.
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Don't you have a harder sample? My CPU complained that it has nothing to do playing that video.. the CPU was basically idle and my (passive) 9600GT did all the work. MPC-HC really was worth the upgrade - now playing a 50mbit AVC stream uses as much CPU as playing a lowly 700MB XviD rip.
This sample is for people using hardware players. It was supposed to test if spec are really true.
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The Popcornhour 100 is $179. At Black Friday, we'll have a Blu-ray player for $128.
My first DivX capable player cost me $300 back in the day.

And somehow I don't see the $50 DVD player play DivX7 in the near future...seeing how things developed on the DivX5 front, I find it much more likely that prices will move along the lines of Blu-ray prices and thus I'm asking if it makes sense to try and establish another hardware category that's just below the
already established standard. Does it really make sense for hardware makers to produce two chip lines instead of one, where they have the chance to put the 4.1 chip in millions of devices even today? And from a user perspective, you're repeating history with potential buyers invariably falling into the not compatible or not quite compatible trap. Anyone remember GMC? And that wasn't a particularly important feature to begin with. I feel eerily reminded of the discussion when the DivX certification was first created - only then, the argument about chip cost had more merit as we didn't have a up and coming disc format paving the way for 2 years.

And last time I checked my ISP's website, I could actually have a 50mbit connection. Granted, it's expensive as hell, but there are quite a few places where a 100mbit connection for a reasonable amount of money. And just because the bandwidth isn't there shouldn't mean the hardware shouldn't be able to decode something.. streaming isn't the only way to deliver content (back when the first DivX capable players came out it took me hours upon hours to download 700MB..).

And subsidized? You're talking about the PS3, right? Because the rest of it, the Blu camp is having us pay through the nose now they've done away with the cheap competition.
Imho the Situation with AVC isn't as comparable anymore as the Situation we had back then when DivX became successful there is basicly no such a widespread DSP support currently from Asia (which was the reason we had cheap solutions available and DivX became successful @ all).
ASP was basically a in the Wild thing AVC is much better kept under wrap (by the circles behind it) and protected to secure Licensing @ all costs (also a reason of course Hollywood accepted it). So even with DivX going that way now i wouldn't expect cheap solutions as we saw back in ASP days anytime soon also with the NAFTA in mind

The idea of creating our own Community based Standard seems much much more ideal to me, though it would need alot of work but im sure it's doable and im also sure so far that Hardware Developers would support it widely and even if they don't with all the possibilities of General Purpose Chips (like widespread GPUs) we could do acceleration independent of DSP logic (though it still has to be seen how fast that really is as neither Nvidia/ATI Decoding are GPU based but DSP logic itself inside of the GPU) .
People should never forget without us DivX Networks/Inc wouldn't be there where it is today.
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Don't you have a harder sample? My CPU complained that it has nothing to do playing that video.. the CPU was basically idle and my (passive) 9600GT did all the work. MPC-HC really was worth the upgrade - now playing a 50mbit AVC stream uses as much CPU as playing a lowly 700MB XviD rip.
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