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Foil 3 Digital Video Technology

From Overview of Database support for VTC Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV -- June 28 96. by Bartlomiej Winnowicz *

Extend video support by adding popular codecs and covering broad range of bitrates for adaptive applications
  • ActiveMovie effort: portable support for software-based codecs, modular architecture
  • H.263 effort: extensions to the codec, integrated as a player, plug-in, and Java applet, ongoing effort for audio sync
  • Wavelet video coding basic research: recognizing deficiencies of current video compression schemes
  • Better MPEG support for non-PC platforms
    • joint project with North Valley Research
    • early adopter of SGI's MediaBase architecture
  • Contents generation: MPEG to H.263 re-encoder completed



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