Digigami touts MPEG-2 over H.264
updated 05:30 pm EST, Thu December 22, 2005
MegaPEG MPEG-2 encoder
Digigami today announced that its new is capable of matching, and in some cases exceeding the picture quality of current H.264 encoders while simultaneously offering reduced bitrates. Echoing Sony's recent claims that MPEG-2 can and will achieve quality/bitrates comparable to H.264 for the next generation of optical disc formats, the company said that its MPEG-2 encoder is "actually outperforming H.264 by a wide margin on 720p/1080p film content. Typically, our HD MPEG-2 encoder can produce VBR files two thirds to one half the bitrate produced by current H.264 encoders. On our website we have compressed material which supports this assertion." Apple's video iPod uses the H.264 format to play movies, as does its QuickTime 7 software. The Digigami MegaPEG HDTV VBR MPEG-2 encoder is available for $1,000 (system requirements were unavailable).
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VBR performance is very content dependent. It would be interesting to see numbers from a video which has constantly changing content so the bit rate needs to be constantly high. Secondly, I'd like to see some demos of what this thing can do from feature film quality down to iPod/internet quality. The biggest selling point of the H.264 standard is scalability.