Is onerous-izing of Windows Media Codec true?

[lunaticmoon]

News source in Japanese.
http://ascii24.com/news/i/tech/article/2004/12/15/653119-000.html

It is written that "There was announcement that Windows Media Codec became onerous in 2008 and afterwards."

Is it true ? :confused:

[bond]

what do you mean with "onerous"?

[Joe Fenton]

I used a translation page on the article:

Using the corresponding motherboard of Geode NX and TYAN, the Sakai of
GMS which calls the video on demand system for the hospital (inside
ward) in the midst of developing, "in order to make boot cleanly,
restarts the system of the certain corporation which presently is
introduced, automatically in night, you have heard that (sound being
noisy) it is disreputable in the inpatient. Because of that being the
fan less, it developed quiet STB (set top box), but among other CPU
the scene falling was many. At the beginning, it was the intention of
adopting CODEC of Windows Media, but because compensatory conversion
after 2008 is announced, when urgently it changes to CODEC the country
make, operation being heavy, not be able to play back with C3 and Eden
and the like (to install, for the equipment CPU), 2GHz class was
necessary even with Celeron. Presently still it is in the midst of
developing, but "the demonstration image (with image which encodes
Mito yellow gate", as for bit rate 1.3M - 1.5Mbps) which was shown,
when, offer from hospital side coming, already even 700 beds you have
been surprised ", is in the midst of operating you said, emphasized
the height of the multimedia efficiency of Geode NX.

This translation used mandatory instead of onerous. It's clear from the context that what they MEAN is that the Windows Media codec requires more power than this class of processor boards are capable of delivering. They are saying VIA needs to release a 2GHz classs C3/Eden processor board to handle the coming demands for WMV on set top boxes, where WMV will be mandatory in the next few years.

WMV in the form of VC1 has tentatively been made mandatory for HD-DVD. It is not too much of a leap to say that it will be mandatory for set top boxes in the future as well.

[snacky]

This article is probably saying that the spec requires set-top decoders to support VC1.

Also, I can't resist commenting on your form.

1. I question your judgement in commenting on an article that you can't even read.
2. Posting machine translations is pretty worthless. All it does is waste peoples' time. [edit: this is directed at the first post. NOT the post previous to mine.]

[celtic_druid]

I'd say that they could read it fine and that the problem was with their (and not machine) translation.