[M4IF Technotes] HD decoders?

[Wesley De Neve]

Dear Ben,
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ben Waggoner wrote:
> Folks,
> 
>     I'm on a panel about HD at NAB this year.
> 
> http://www.nab.org/conventions/nab2003/sessiondetail.asp?id=1201583
> 
>     As part of the presentation, I want to be able to demo HD MPEG-4 (at
> least 1280x720, and ideally 1920x1080).  Can be SP, ASP, 264, or ideally all
> of them (but I'll take SP if nothing else).  Does anyone have Mac/Win based
> software decoder that can pull this off?  I gather we'll have access to a
> beefy machine.  If not, any other good, portable MPEG-4 HD decode solutions
> I could use in the session?  I'll happily credit the vendor in the
> presentation.

I've once done this experiment for fun with the MPEG-4 codec of QuickTime
(for a test sequence of 600 frames with a resolution of 1280x720, YUV
4:2:0). It worked but I don't want to know all the rules I was violating
then ;-). The only thing you have to worry about is getting the YUV
samples in the mov file format. I've written some code for that but I
guess there are also other solutions.
The reference software for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC should also be able to deal
with that.
With kind regards,
Wesley De Neve
-- 
Ghent University
ELIS/Multimedia Lab
<url:http://multimedialab.elis.rug.ac.be>