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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Rumors of MPEG-2&#039;s death greatly exaggerated? Digigami does HD on a regular DVD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/23/rumors-of-mpeg-2s-death-greatly-exaggerated-digigami-does-hd-o/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/23/rumors-of-mpeg-2s-death-greatly-exaggerated-digigami-does-hd-o/</guid><description><![CDATA[I am not sure why there is all this MPEG2 bashing lately when talking of the next gen optical formats.  I was at CES last year and all the 'high end' new codecs (VC1/WMV and H.264) looked awful compared to good ol MPEG2.  Mostly the problem is the content producers seem to think they need to bit starve their content with MPEG4 codecs.  I saw one demo of Blu-Ray with all three codecs - MPEG2 at 25Mbps, and WMV/VC1 and H.264 each at 12Mbps.  The MPEG2 feed looked far better with no false contouring (banding) or macroblocking artifacts.  Who cares if it uses more space on a 25GB platter.  Burn it all, I don't care but I want clean video.  MPEG2 is very mature and there are excellent hardware encoders.  It will take years for the other codecs to be tweaked to match the quality and consistancy of MPEG2.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nero]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 23rd 2005 5:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Rumors of MPEG-2&#039;s death greatly exaggerated? Digigami does HD on a regular DVD]]></title><link>http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/23/rumors-of-mpeg-2s-death-greatly-exaggerated-digigami-does-hd-o/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://hd.engadget.com/2005/12/23/rumors-of-mpeg-2s-death-greatly-exaggerated-digigami-does-hd-o/</guid><description><![CDATA[MPEG-2 VBR at SD DVD bitrates has been verified by Sagittaire at Doom9.org.  He re-encoded an HD trailer from the Apple HD site down to MPEG-2 VBR 3.8 mbits/s avg (SD DVD is between 3 and 8 mbits/s), and everyone agrees it looks great.  The stream is very nearly constant Q (around 6.5), and Superbit DVDs, which IMHO, are the best encoded MPEG-2 around, are semi-constant Q between 2-6.  Most macroblock artifacting occurs in 10 and up.<br><br><br><br><a href='http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96145&page=15&pp=20<br>'>http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=96145&page=15&pp=20<br></a><br><br><br>At the same time, the H.264 pros over there showed me some very low bitrate samples that looked excellent.  However, the only encoder to support all professional coding features, including interlacing, is Ateme, at $9000K or "unobtanium" depending on who you ask.  So I am looking forward to comparing as Nero did at CES, which is high-bitrate, HD.<br><br><br><br>At this point, I am a believer in both codecs for different reasons.<br><br><br><br>Gen Kiyooka<br><br>Digigami]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Gen Kiyooka]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 26th 2005 9:02AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>