MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired

Re:MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired by taeric on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @05:56PM (#16380323)

My understanding from a long time ago was that the formats were actually competitive if you consider computation requirements. Size of the data was larger, but not by so much that it was scary.

There a good modern comparison of the formats?

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Re:MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired by astrange on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @09:07PM (#16381408)

This isn't far off especially if you count on-CPU decoding. MPEG2 is sensible for the time, but can't scale to larger pixel resolutions or lower bitrates well.

The generation after MPEG2 (VP7, MPEG4 ASP, Theora) though, pretty much sucked universally and there was no good reason for it… second-system effect?

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Re:MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired by taeric on Thursday February 15, 2018 @02:24AM (#16382420)

This makes me realize how behind I am. The generation you mention as being bad is what I think of as latest generation. :)

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