anybody heard of this supposedly new video format

[tigerman8u]

This is part of an e-mail I recieved today, anybody ever heard of it ?

XVD (TM), the new video compression standard, is HERE!!

What's XVD?
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High Compression
2 hours of high-quality video on 1 CD! Over 13 hours on 1 DVD!
XVD is the next-generation video compression technology (codec) that
achieves DVD-quality video at 7-10 times smaller file size than
MPEG-2. Significantly longer movies can now be packed onto a CD or
DVD and higher-quality, full-screen video streamed over IP-based
networks. XVD audio files are encoded at better quality than MP3 and
half the file size.

High Quality
DVD-quality at 7-10 times smaller than MPEG-2!
Better quality than MP3 and half the file size!
The XVD advanced codec approach realizes the best possible perceptual
quality of compressed video/audio material at any given rate.
There is less quality loss when encoding at low bitrates.

High Speed
Faster than Real-Time! Faster than DivX, of course!
Video encoding using software is known to be slow. However, when
encoding using XVD encoder plus, the encoding speed is faster than
real-time. It is possible to encode at relatively high speeds depending
on your computer specifications.

[zorankarapancev]

http://www.bhacorp.com/products/xvdplus/plus.html

[holistic]

More smoke and mirrors
2 hours of high-quality video on 1 CD!
Well that's a matter of opinion.

The creators : http://www.ds-usa.com/
http://www.bhacorp.com/about_bha/press/2003/0425.html

The XVD Media Platform's compression system consists of two proprietary main parts: a video compression algorithm and an audio compression algorithm

Why on earth would you use a proprietary codec that isn't even compatiable with 'set top' DVD players.
With the new generation of dual layer and 'blue' laser disks (burners), using a codec like this is pointless.

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[gll99]

Just downloaded the XVD Encoder PLus 30 day trial and encoded a short clip of a DVD that was on my drive.

The clip was 6 min and it took 10 min in standard mode. There is a fast encode and a quality setting too but did not test yet. My P4 was running another encode session so probably affected the time.
It flipped the video and the output was washed out (I flipped it back with the G400 filter). There are filters which can be added during processing to correct such things as the flip but I had left to defaults so probably need to make adjustments. The extension is vg2 but surprisingly it played in the windows media player. I did not find a capture app which is what would interest me and the codec did not show up in a couple of avi cap apps that I tried.

Not a fair test yet but if it plays in wmp then may not be as bad as all that. This is not in competition with DVD VCD SVCD formats since it's not intended to play on a standlone player. I will try to play with it some more over the next few days but just as a video storing option only. If it could be used in realtime tv capture that would be a much better test.