Digital Video Technology
Digital Video Technology
- 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