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Razorblade2000
21st June 2005, 20:05
http://www.on2.com/pressreleases.php?qs1=doubles_vp7_performance


On2 Technologies Doubles Performance, Boosts Image Quality on TrueMotion VP7

Real-Time Encoding, Higher Image Quality Broadens Market Applications for VP7; Live Events, Video-on-Demand, Mobile Video Apps Benefit from New VP7

NEW YORK (June 20, 2005) -- On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT), today announced it has significantly enhanced its flagship video compression software, TrueMotion VP7. With this enhanced version of VP7, On2 has more than doubled two-pass encoding rates, greatly increased image quality, doubled decode speeds and boosted performance specifications of its real-time encoding capability. These benchmarks position VP7 as outperforming competitive codecs -- such as Windows Media 9, Real 10 and most implementations of H.264 -- by up to 30 - 50%.

By enhancing VP7 and greatly improving codec performance, On2 has effectively broadened its addressable market opportunities by providing a high quality, high performance video compression tool that can address the stringent requirements of fast-emerging digital media content creation and delivery trends, such as video-on-demand, live streaming to PCs and mobile devices, VOIP and Instant Messenger applications and game development.

"The TrueMotion development team is constantly striving to shatter every performance and image quality benchmark; we understand that all of the newest digital video device innovations are only as good as the image quality they can deliver," said Doug McIntyre, chairman, president and chief executive officer of On2. "We're executing our plan to drive market trends with the highest quality, best performing video codecs in the industry. Our newest release of VP7 is testament to the team's success in meeting that goal."

TrueMotion VP7 now includes a set of features making it the most flexible solution on the market. These features provide developers more control over video than is available in any other solution on the market. The new VP7 offers:

* Outstanding quality video with low latency over networks with high data loss;
* Seamless and effortless text or graphics overlay on to video;
* Ability to handle dialup rates or broadband data rates without changing the output video size;
* Single, scalable data rate video streams that can be decoded at 56 kilobits, simultaneously with other users decoding at 300 kilobits.

riggits
22nd June 2005, 04:13
can't find the free download, only a crummy "trial" version to last 10 days. That's pretty useless..

guada 2
22nd June 2005, 06:37
Razorblade2000,

Thank you for this information.
To soon

DeathTheSheep
22nd June 2005, 20:36
Wow... Is this the 7.0.7 release or something else entirely? Like a 7.2? I can't fathom how such an increase is possible, but looking at how xvid improved from the beginning, I know it is possible. Hm... This would be something.

Sharktooth
22nd June 2005, 21:30
can't find the free download, only a crummy "trial" version to last 10 days. That's pretty useless..
There's no longer a free download for the encoder...

DeathTheSheep
22nd June 2005, 21:39
Really? Even the links in the emails are dead/outdated? Hm... I know you have to register, but they give you a free trial download, don't they? Hm... interesting...

Sharktooth
23rd June 2005, 12:20
There's only a trial version and a free decoder.

DeathTheSheep
23rd June 2005, 19:58
Ah, you got me there... but technically, the trial version is a "free download," is it not? lol

bond
23rd June 2005, 20:22
i heavily doubt it that they managed to double the encoding speed together with making the quality better

smells heavily like marketing-b...

Sharktooth
23rd June 2005, 21:03
bond, it's true even if they doubled the "good quality" speed only for some settings (not all).
but the quality is certainly better in all modes :)

GUTB
25th June 2005, 07:03
I'm THINKING of switching to vp7 as my main AVC codec. But I ** MUST ** be able to point to a free public decoder that will ** WORK ** with everybody's lame splitter including MS's.

bond
25th June 2005, 10:10
vp7 is not an avc codec

guada 2
25th June 2005, 13:47
Hello,

Globally the VP7 codec is faster than the codec x264.
But I will say that it is of very little.

Look at:

An avi: 1.81 mo / Duration: 50s / Format: 720 * 576

Script: LimitedeXsharpen (Soulhunter)
choice of the birate: 90 kbps

- VP7 (first pass / second pass best quality / Sharpen = 4 / the rest: by default)

- x264 v270 best setting: Max ref frames=5 / B-frames = 2 / 5HQ / exhaustive search / the rest by default + 8*8 DCT



report: VP7: pass1: 1.35 min / pass2: 6.17 min / size: 6.96 mo

x264: pass1: 4.46 min / pass2: 4.14 min / size: 6.83 mo


but the quality is certainly better in all modes ( Sharktooth)
I don't know BUT...


In Conclusion:
I prefer the quality which the codec x264 delivers. A great control of this codec: very fluid, not artifact significant. A pictorial coloration respected.

NOTE: it's just my report.

guada 2
25th June 2005, 14:01
I installed the last pack Satsuki 2.0.0.4.
It seems not to filter the last version of the VP7 codec correctly.
Fine vertical bands and a general blur is present on playing mode.
I recall you that I have all uninstalled, even in the Windows register.
But it doesn't matter.

Someone can confirm this. Thank you;

NOTE: no problem of playing with Nero show time.