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April 17, 2007
VC-1 info
VC-1 info: Microsoft's upcoming browser plugin, "Silverlight" (nee WPF/e, nee Sparkle), includes a video codec called VC-1. The Register contains an article discussing the technical and business aspects of this video format. It starts: "We meet people on the various IPTV, mobile TV and web video circuits who always comment that VC-1, after a flying start, has fallen back and that pretty much these days the codec of choice is either VP6 from On2 Technologies for web video and H.264 for everything else, with no VC-1 in sight...." Much more here.
Posted by JohnDowdell at April 17, 2007 04:00 PM
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Hey, just so you know, "Sparkle" was the codename for Blend, not for Silverlight.
Posted by: John at April 18, 2007 06:44 AM
Yup, and there may have been a "Jolt" codename in there too... I used "Sparkle" here to signify when we in the public started paying attention to the whole initiative, rather than any individual component. No biggie. ;-)
Posted by: John Dowdell at April 18, 2007 08:20 AM
Just so you know.. WMV3/9 is VC-1
Posted by: Evert at April 27, 2007 10:44 AM