New MPEG-4 Software from Fraunhofer Institute

[sPunkt]

The Fraunhofer IIS just released (http://www2.iis.fraunhofer.de/mpeg4software.html) a free (demo - until December 31.) version of it's MPEG-4 encoder and player:

- Support of the MPEG-4 Audio AAC-LC and AAC-LTP object types
- Support of the MPEG-4 Simple and Advanced Simple Visual Profiles
- Support of the MPEG-4 Fileformat
- Support of the ISMA Specification 1.0 for RTP/RTSP streaming of MPEG-4 content over IP
- Support of the 3GPP Fileformat and the 3GPP specification for RTP/RTSP streaming

Anyone took a look at this and can comment on quality/speed?

[twist3d]

well I would but the link is down :(

[sillKotscha]

works fine here...

and btw

After this date, selected features of the software will be disabled while still allowing basic operation.

they did not mention their "basic operations"... my guess - generic mpeg-4 playback :D

Edit: isn't it better to move this thread into the "New A/V Formats - Codecs" section...

[slavickas]

Originally posted by twist3d
well I would but the link is down :(
me too, used proxy to view page, download at
ftp://ftp1.fraunhofer.de/institute/iis/amm/mpeg-4/

edit: it's hangware(tm) and supports only sp (encoding)

[LigH]

"Hangware" - is probably no common expression in germany; please explain: Will someone hang you if you do something wrong?!

[slavickas]

Originally posted by LigH
"Hangware" - is probably no common expression in germany; please explain: Will someone hang you if you do something wrong?!
defending national software :D
my mistake was but such program should check where i'm going to output :rolleyes:

edit
and qt don't like genrated file (just 1 created) , but i don't expect much of it

edit2: well it's really hangware(tm), hanged on file which i today encoded several times with nsvate

[LigH]

Ah, you mean "suicide risk at any reason"?!

[Selur]

speed: 424seconds to encode a clip with 451 second on an athlon XP 2400+
quality: haven't found a way to playback the file up to now

did anyone find a way to playback one of the .mp4 files ?
(created by the encoder, the sample files from there homepage run fine on my system)


Doh, they also got a player (iisMP4play.msi) on their ftp:
ftp://ftp1.fraunhofer.de/institute/iis/amm/mpeg-4/ which plays the encoded file just fine,...

=> quality: looks kind of smoothed, but can't say for sure since the player doesn't support fullscreen

Cu Selur