[Mp4-tech] MPEG-4 compression

[Rosiles Gerardo-ra9355]

 IMO we should no measure the adoption of H.264 based on the MPEG-4 part 2 experience. I think that among other factors, MPEG-4 part 2 did not provide a compelling improvement over MPEG-2 for a switch, so there was really not a big enough market (i.e. DVD, consumer) to justify the production of MPEG-4 SP or ASP ASIC solutions at a big scale. 
Added to that was the fact that H.264 was on the works ... So the question is how fast the market will demand H.264? If H.264 can deliver the compression improvement it claims I can see it being seriously considered as the substitute format for MPEG-2 in different markets.
So if H.264 is adopted rapidly, then we can expect hardware solutions pretty soon. BTW, I think there are companies that have demoed at least H.264 encoders in FPGA. Integration in to ASICs should follow "easily". BTW 18 month seems to me about right for an H.264 solution to be available, and that is not "years away" in the silicon world :).
Gerardo
>>On 31 October 2023 Tourapis Alexandros wrote:- "I would argue on the fact that H.264
>>hardware implementations are years away".
>>
>>I say H.264 in hardware is years away because full hardware implementations of MPEG-4 codecs >>are only just becoming available (rather than software codecs running on DSP or ARM cores) 
>>so it will take another 18/24 months before H.264 is in silicon.

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