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Old 8th January 2019, 09:08   #24  |  Link
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner View Post
VC-1 was a quite good codec when software decoding on single-core 32-bit x86 processors without advance SSE stuff was an important feature requirement. It was quite competitive with H.264 Baseline Profile. But H.264 High Profile was almost a superset of VC-1. And once the H.264 patent pool got down to a reasonable price/structure to allow building with Windows, there wasn't a lot of point in further enhancing VC-1 for Microsoft.
QFT! VC-1 was some great stuff for sure. Microsoft was ahead of the game for awhile here
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