New video compression promises smaller files at DVD quality

[johneboy]

A new video compression to be released soon promises smaller file sizes and full screen DVD quality video with stereo sound, all onto a 700mb CD

Quote from site: In the past, displaying any video on a computer usually meant you had very large file sizes and a picture that took up only a small portion of the available area on the computer’s display – if you tried to enlarge the video you had to sacrifice picture quality, with large “blocks” throughout the picture.

Now – evolvevideo means that your viewers will see full screen DVD quality images on the computer display monitor - just as you originally intended them to look when you produced your expensive film or video master in the edit suite.

Feature List

show amazing quality video presentations on your PC

replace your old VHS presentations to clients with a convenient and more cost effective CD-ROM

play trade or sales presentations and project them onto either a screen or play them through a plasma screen or television

easily incorporate your video program into a powerpoint presentation

incorporate full screen video onto CD-ROM Director presentations

fit more DVD quality video onto your CD-ROM business card

incorporate full screen video in training or educational CD-ROMs

combine music audio tracks with a CD-ROM component of full screen video (enhanced music CD-ROMs)

fit an entire movie onto one CD (700Mb) and play it full screen on your computer at DVD quality.

News source: evolvevideo.com

[WeedVender]

Im guessing this is the new H.264 video codec?

[burned_once]

You won't find out by following the link to evolvevideo.com. Just a bunch of salespeak, same as this post. It does mention a proprietary player, which gives you all that quality at the click of a mouse. The CDs with a whole movie on them must be intended to be played on a PC using this player. The fact that you can't afford a camera that produces 1024x768 progressive video doesn't seem to enter into the equation.

[vitualis]

You could achieve a similar result with DivX 5 or XviD and without the hype...

Regards.

[BJ_M]

if you had a client that coughed up the bucks for a "expensive film or video master"

you would certainly burn a sample on a dvd anyway so they could take it with them and/or watch it on a proper monitor as pc monitors are not for viewing final check prints of films/video ..

[holistic]

WHAT A LOAD O CRAP

In todays world of cheap DVD players , burners and media, what company in their right mind would even consider a product like this. There is a reason for standards.


DVD 'quality' on a CD - enough with the bull$sit allready

Taking ,say, 90 minutes of video off a DVD - reencoding it - then putting it to CD does NOT and WILL NEVER make it DVD quality.

Quality is subjective (as i daily see from the movie to one CD posts) but come on now people . Bitrates of a 1000 or less should never be called 'DVD quality'

rant over ............


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