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Shapierian
24th May 2006, 00:06
The BBC and Fluendo have released the first preview of the Schrödinger project. An implenentation of BBC's dirac.

Schrödinger includes an OGG mapping of dirac.

The full announcement is availible here: http://blogs.gnome.org/view/uraeus/2006/05/23/0
bratao
24th May 2006, 00:38
I see the code and i really like it
Guess if it better than Snow....
CruNcher
24th May 2006, 09:26
did somebody tried it allready how fast compared to Snow and the non optimized Dirac for now and how much slower vs X264 ;D
Caroliano
26th May 2006, 22:20
Schrödinger needs an easier nickname.... or I can call it Dirac?

It's a preview release, so if it is working well is already very good. And why they don't chose matroska as the container? There is an special reason?
lazyn00b
27th May 2006, 21:51
I would be happy to test Schrodinger's codec, but my neighbor won't let me borrow his cat! :D
Shirokuu
28th May 2006, 02:36
Schrödinger needs an easier nickname.... or I can call it Dirac?

It's a preview release, so if it is working well is already very good. And why they don't chose matroska as the container? There is an special reason?

Well, technically speaking, Schrodinger is an implementation of the DIRAC codec. It is meant to provide portable libraries written in C. Originally they meant to use the MXF container for storing video, but the OGG container is also used. Basically you could use any container format to store DIRAC compliant videostreams. If you would want to use Schrodinger as an alternative to commercially licensed products then i suppose you use the DIRAC codec for video and the OGG Vorbis codec for audio.

Well... that sounds nice theoretically but since playback and surely encoding takes a huge CPU workload, i don't see this working anytime soon.