Thursday, February 28, 2002
MVQ streaming may blow away MPEG-4
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 08:18 PM
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20020221/tc_zd/5103513
MPEG-4 hasn't even really arrived, and already a company is claiming they have something better. What I find most interesting, beyond the claimed compression improvements, is the fact that the playbackl client is a 20 KB Java applet. Perhaps Java isn't so useless after all. ;-)
"Finnish developer Oplayo has been demonstrating a compression technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes which, says the company, is up to ten times faster for delivering audio and video to mobile devices than MPEG-4.
Baptised MVQ (which stands for Motion Vector Quantization), the technology enables extremely light video decoding that requires a low processing power at the receiving end, making it suitable for wireless devices. Instead of using a plug-in, or a player as is the case with both Microsoft and RealNetworks technologies, Oplayo's MVQ uses a 20KB Java applet that can be transmitted to a PC, PDA or phone along with the video package. " Source: Cory Johnson
MPEG-4 hasn't even really arrived, and already a company is claiming they have something better. What I find most interesting, beyond the claimed compression improvements, is the fact that the playbackl client is a 20 KB Java applet. Perhaps Java isn't so useless after all. ;-)
"Finnish developer Oplayo has been demonstrating a compression technology at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes which, says the company, is up to ten times faster for delivering audio and video to mobile devices than MPEG-4.
Baptised MVQ (which stands for Motion Vector Quantization), the technology enables extremely light video decoding that requires a low processing power at the receiving end, making it suitable for wireless devices. Instead of using a plug-in, or a player as is the case with both Microsoft and RealNetworks technologies, Oplayo's MVQ uses a 20KB Java applet that can be transmitted to a PC, PDA or phone along with the video package. " Source: Cory Johnson
