Posted on 02/27/2006 11:43:58 AM PST by Panerai
StreamingMedia.com on Monday announced the publication of two new reports that suggest that Apple’s QuickTime H.264 video encoding has gained ground on Microsoft Windows Media. The winner, however, was RealVideo. The reports are available for $295 each.
The first report, “Proprietary Streaming Codecs, 2006,” pitted RealVideo and Windows media with compression schemes employee by top Flash Video and H.264 codecs. The report concluded that Flash and H.264 codecs trail RealVideo “often by a significant margin.”
To test, a six-minute file comprising 38 scenes were encoded for model, 3GPP, 100Kbps, 300Kbps and 500Kbps playback. Frame quality, temporal and color quality and playback smoothness were measured.
The report’s author, Jan Ozer, said that StreamingMedia.com expected Microsoft’s technology to come out on top, but it was usually near the bottom. “Companies using or considering Windows Media really need to evaluate other technologies,” said Ozer.
The second report, “Flash Codecs, 2006” compared different companies’ Flash Video offerings. StreamingMedia.com concluded that On2’s VP6 codec came out on top when compared to Wildform and Sorenson Spark, but that “there are no one-size-fits-all solutions for Flash producers,” according to Ozer.
In this case, Ozer produced more than 1,000 Flash videos using four encoding tools.
Another forthcoming report entitled “H.264 Codecs, 2006” will compare H.264 encoding from Apple, Sorenson, Main Concept and Ateme.
RealVideo not for me.
Enclosed is my check for $2,950. Please send 10 copies of this report...
I hear ya
Companies compromise to Windows Media because 90% of the users have it installed in their systems already, and it doesn't carry spyware like other players.
No spyware for me thanks.
You can ignore any article with that right after the title.
Have you gotten WMV to work under linux? If so, how?
Realplayer and Quicktime have become spyware. I've uninstalled the lot.
Was Apple platform better than MS? Was Apple a better salesman than MS? You know the answer there. Case closed.
Yeah--I use Xine. I had to DL the MS codecs for it, and it works just fine.
Regardless of his technical acumen, he remains well connected and informed of industry business trends.
He hides it well.
Me too. Anyone who requires me to use RealPlayer or QuickTime will just have to do without me.
I've been to the MPlayer page but didn't that far. Have you personally installed the wmv codec and gotten it to work with some existing linux app? Can you provide specifics?
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