[Mp4-tech] France choose MPEG4 video, is it H.264 ?

[Guillaume Etorre]

Hi Gary,
This has been a hot political issue in France for quite a while now. 
Terrestrial television has been delayed on and on for years now, and 
government was eager to get something starting in March 2005, as 
planned. Hence the decision to use MPEG-2 for free-to-air channels. All 
the rest is MPEG-4 (which has come to mean H.264.)
Best regards,
--
Guillaume Etorre
REALmagic France
Sigma Designs, Inc.
Gary Sullivan wrote:
>Olivier et al,
>
>Thanks very much for those links.  If I am properly reading the prime minister's sentence "Ces modifications prévoiront que la norme de compression MPEG-4 sera rendue obligatoire pour la diffusion des chaînes payantes de la TNT et des chaînes en haute définition.", he appears to be saying not only that the pay TV channels will use AVC, but that the HDTV channels will too.
>
>Is that correct?
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Gary Sullivan
>
>
>+> -----Original Message-----
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>+> [mailto:mp4-tech-bounces lists.mpegif.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Amato
>+> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2024 10:22 AM
>+> To: mp4-tech lists.mpegif.org; Stephen Tonna
>+> Subject: VRe: [Mp4-tech] France choose MPEG4 video, is it H.264 ?
>+> 
>+> Stephen,
>+> 
>+> > Is there a link to a news article that says they 
>+> officially chose part 10? 
>+> > Everything that I have found to date has only stated MPEG-4.
>+> 
>+> You're right, the official press release from the french 
>+> prime minister 
>+> doesn't specify part 10 at all ( sorry, it's in french ... ) :
>+> http://www.ddm.gouv.fr/television/dossiers_thematiques/tnt15.html
>+> 
>+> But this decision is based on two previous technical reports 
>+> which specified 
>+> MPEG-4 Part 10 as the preferred video codec :
>+> http://www.industrie.gouv.fr/biblioth/docu/dossiers/ntic/pdf/
>+> tvnumeriquevf.pdf
>+> http://www.premier-ministre.gouv.fr/IMG/pdf/rapport_boudet-2.pdf
>+> 
>+> Hope this helps,
>+> 
>+> Olivier Amato
>+> Media technologies consultant, France.
>+> 
>+> 
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