VP5 And VP6 To Be Included In China's EVD Standard

[DAvenger]

Beijing E-World and On2 Technologies, Inc. recently announced that On2's VP5 and VP6 video codecs are included in China's industrial standard for the new Enhanced Versatile Disk (EVD).

http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=368

[SeeMoreDigital]

Yea, this is interesting!

I wonder if they are going to stick to a constant bitrate on their disc's!

Personally I can't get the 2pass VBR mode to work properly.

Bye the way, does anybody know what audio format On2 use, when they creat thier own encodes using their VP6 container?

[The Edge]

From theregister.com

"Even in China, EVD players are likely to be initially very expensive compared to DVD players, for which there is already a vast array of content available, legitimate and pirate. The Chinese government has said EVD players will cost around 2000 Yuan ($240), compared to 700 Yuan ($85) for a DVD player"


Expensive to begin with. That will hamper it's sales.
I believe Chinese DVD makers pay $9 in royalties for each player exported while the consortium charges $2 in royalties for each EVD player manufactured. For this to be a success Hollywood studios, which drive the world video software business, would have to release their titles on EVD which I really don't see happening. At best, this player might take off in China.

Edge

[Joe Fenton]

Since when has China ever waited for Hollywood to release a movie there? You can get DVD's from China for movies that are still in the theaters here. :p

They already pirate the films, now they want to save money on the hardware side to boost the savings even more.

[The Edge]

Originally posted by Joe Fenton
Since when has China ever waited for Hollywood to release a movie there? You can get DVD's from China for movies that are still in the theaters here. :p

They already pirate the films, now they want to save money on the hardware side to boost the savings even more.

We all know that.:p
Notice that pirated films are illegal while EVD is a legal. What do pirates have to do with this thread?

Edge

[iwod]

But in a sense isn't this just about changing the name from DVD to EVD and uses Vp6 instead of Mpeg2??

Or is there disk structure different as well??

If not then if On2 can improve slightly more with VP6 then may be i can store all rips in Vp6 and store it back on to DVD + R.....