[M4IF Technotes] Also, what's going on with HD MPEG-4

[Ben Waggoner]

Folks,
    Speaking of HD MPEG-4 (which is almost, but not quite, working for me at
full frame rate on several machines), what is going on with proposed formats
for doing HD delivery on red-laser DVD?
    Advanced Simple clearly provides sufficient quality at 1280x720 24p for
a two hour movie on a DVD-9.  I've getting darn good quality at 6 Mbps with
2-pass VBR out of Squeeze.  So, what's happening with actually making some
products based around that?  Is ASP going to be skipped for H.264?  Is BIFS
going to be used for interactivity (menus and such)?  Is this all far, too
far out to even discuss right now?
Ben Waggoner <http://www.benwaggoner.com>
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