ESS Technology Adds Nero Digital Support to Vibratto II DVD Solutions

[JohnV]

Hardware support for Nero Digital MPEG-4 starting to emerge:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040921/sftu046_1.html

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ESS Technology, a leading supplier of silicon solutions for digital audio, video and imaging consumer electronics, today announced that it is introducing support for Nero Digital in its Vibratto® II DVD solutions.
ESS will offer Nero Digital certified reference designs for DVD player manufacturers to satisfy the growing consumer demand for the latest developments in MPEG-4 video/audio compression. A Nero Digital demonstration will be presented at the upcoming Hong Kong Electronics Fair on October 13-16, 2004. DVD player reference designs supporting Nero Digital are now available."
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[SeeMoreDigital]

Great news!

Thanks for posting the information JohnV.

So that's Sigma and ESS designing and building chip-sets capable of decoding Mpeg4/AAC in MP4...

...I wonder whether MediaTek will follow suit?

"Soon MP4 will dominate the world"


Cheers

[Zhnujm]

I hope this means new hardware and not only a new firmware for their current chipset.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by Zhnujm
I hope this means new hardware and not only a new firmware for their current chipset.

That said, it would be interesting to know if any of their current chip-sets support AAC audio!

I wonder if any new ESS chip-sets will be designed to support Nero/Ateme's AVC codec?

This would be well cool!

[bond]

"New Nero Digital Video Format"

well somehow ahead had to profit for not going the old "lets simply use avi" way and choosing full mpeg-4 (including aac and .mp4) instead

once again lets put emphasis on it: .mp4 is the container format specified in the mpeg-4 standard, definitely not an invention by ahead making it something like an exclusive "nero digital video format".
its possible to place divx5 and xvid (like any mpeg-4 codec) too into .mp4 and play them the same way on the "nero digital players" as a file produced with nero tools...
i had to say this

Originally posted by Zhnujm
I hope this means new hardware and not only a new firmware for their current chipset.

hopefully both

does anyone know whether the Vibratto II DVD chip is used already somewhere?

[InsulinJunkie]

Originally posted by bond
does anyone know whether the Vibratto II DVD chip is used already somewhere?

That's been out awhile, hasn't it?

Philips 642 uses it...

EDIT:
Yes, the 642 does use the Vibrato II.
I found a post on another forum where someone opened their 642 and took pictures of the chipset:
forum post

[bond]

cool stuff, thats why the new philips players had some .mp4 support, still it wasnt really good, didnt support aac (only mp3-in-mp4) and also not subs and chapters if i remember it right, but maybe this was only an unfinished preversion of the firmware...

[InsulinJunkie]

didnt support aac (only mp3-in-mp4) and also not subs and chapters if i remember it right

Correct.

Nero Digital files ALREADY work fine in my DVP-642 (w/ MP3 audio), so unless they're going to add AAC support, this announcement doesn't do much for me personally

[castellanos]

Nice for the Americans , who can use the famous DVP-642... I would like to know if the brother 630 is in the same conditions... for Europeans
Greetings!

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by InsulinJunkie
... Nero Digital files ALREADY work fine in my DVP-642 (w/ MP3 audio), so unless they're going to add AAC support, this announcement doesn't do much for me personally

Hey here's a thought!

Maybe Nero will simply add an Mp3 audio encoding option to Recode2 instead.... Doh!


castellanos,
What ever plays in the DVP642, will also play in the DVP630/632 etc


MESSAGE TO ALL ESS CHIP-SET PLAYER USERS
Please provide any observations regarding Mpeg4 playback in this thread: -

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82765


Cheers

[InsulinJunkie]

Originally posted by SeeMoreDigital
Hey here's a thought!

Maybe Nero will simply add an Mp3 audio encoding option to Recode2 instead.... Doh!

That WOULD be nice for convenience's sake, but it's not too much trouble now to tell Recode to encode w/o audio, and mux in an MP3 using MP4Box or the like....just a few extra steps.

AAC decoding, and the 642 knowing what a friggin' PAR (besides 1:1) is, would be nice additions to the player, though.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by InsulinJunkie
... the 642 knowing what a friggin' PAR (besides 1:1) is, would be nice additions to the player, though.

Have you tried PAR encodes in the MP4 container with the newest firmware?


Cheers