Dirac

Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF (176x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets, motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with other state of the art codecs.

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GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2), GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2), Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)

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rexx-fan Posted 2015-03-16

MPC-HC, FFplay, SMplayer, and MediaInfo have no idea, what the *.rgb test videos are, all reporting binary garbage.
scottsimpson2 Posted 2013-06-26

Nice, thank you

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josearmstrong Posted 2013-06-01

Thanks for Dirac, it's great!

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basketballpro Posted 2013-05-30

Wonderful job, thank you so much for showing
angelinagrom Posted 2013-05-25

Thanks very good project! +

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Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Windows

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop, Science/Research

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Video Software

Registered

2004-02-18

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