i really wish when salesmen and tech sites/reviewers say things like "It can also turn its hand to WMV and MPEG 1, 2 and 4 formats." they made it perfectly clear that Mpeg4 is a generic term that infact covers far more than mear divX/Xvid video.
the truth is, it seems intentional to keep using this Mpeg4 general term so as to cover up the fact that AVC En/Decoding is not included in these new devices.
to be clear (as i hope theReg will be from now on) for video, Mpeg4 covers both the OLD Mpeg4-*ASP* (aka divx/Xvid *Part 2*)
and the far newer and better Mpeg4-*AVC* (aka H.264 _Part 10_)
heres a link to make it clearer as to why AVC is better, its got a lossless mode that ASP does not.
just add the old ASP or the new AVC to your text then at least people might start asking the right questions when they come to buy these bits of kit and perhaps even force the salesmen and HW/SW developers to finally put a simple and cheap FPGA thats able to decode AVC content.
and, have the ability to easy re-program it if a new codec is required for the end users use later.
KiloCORE FPGA's seem like a good and cheap investment for the devs and users alike for the future...
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i really wish when salesmen and tech sites/reviewers say things like "It can also turn its hand to WMV and MPEG 1, 2 and 4 formats." they made it perfectly clear that Mpeg4 is a generic term that infact covers far more than mear divX/Xvid video.
the truth is, it seems intentional to keep using this Mpeg4 general term so as to cover up the fact that AVC En/Decoding is not included in these new devices.
to be clear (as i hope theReg will be from now on) for video, Mpeg4 covers both the OLD Mpeg4-*ASP* (aka divx/Xvid *Part 2*)
and the far newer and better Mpeg4-*AVC* (aka H.264 _Part 10_)
heres a link to make it clearer as to why AVC is better, its got a lossless mode that ASP does not.
http://img485.imageshack.us/img485/166/compchart2fana8.png
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=920514
just add the old ASP or the new AVC to your text then at least people might start asking the right questions when they come to buy these bits of kit and perhaps even force the salesmen and HW/SW developers to finally put a simple and cheap FPGA thats able to decode AVC content.
and, have the ability to easy re-program it if a new codec is required for the end users use later.
KiloCORE FPGA's seem like a good and cheap investment for the devs and users alike for the future...