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nwhitfield · 11-01-2009, 10:24 AM

You could investigate Dirac, and see if that gives you any meaningful improvement, but at the moment, I can't think of anything else on the horizon - storage volume isn't an issue for the film studios on BluRay and bandwitdth issues mean 1080p is unlikely in the broadcast world.

High quality, efficient real time encoders for h.264 are still relatively new bits of kit, and still improving quite a lot.

Until broadcasters or film studios feel the pinch, I don't suppose they'll start really pushing hard for the next generation of codec. Remember MPEG2 was in public use for over a decade before any meaningful public deployment of H.264.

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nwhitfield Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,108 My movie collection Thanks: Gave 0, Got 162	Re: H.264/x264 successor? You could investigate Dirac, and see if that gives you any meaningful improvement, but at the moment, I can't think of anything else on the horizon - storage volume isn't an issue for the film studios on BluRay and bandwitdth issues mean 1080p is unlikely in the broadcast world. High quality, efficient real time encoders for h.264 are still relatively new bits of kit, and still improving quite a lot. Until broadcasters or film studios feel the pinch, I don't suppose they'll start really pushing hard for the next generation of codec. Remember MPEG2 was in public use for over a decade before any meaningful public deployment of H.264.