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Old 11th October 2017, 14:38   #1  |  Link
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RealNetworks Launches New Video Codec

https://streaminglearningcenter.com/...deo-codec.html

https://www.realnetworks.com/realmediaHD
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Old 11th October 2017, 15:10   #2  |  Link
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Dear me... how is the efficiency? and visual quality. Could real new HD codec survive from the hevc and av1's double teamed siege...
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Its 2017, the year of UHD, and they release a "HD" codec and compare it to H.264. They sure are slow.
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Dear me... how is the efficiency? and visual quality. Could real new HD codec survive from the hevc and av1's double teamed siege...
No idea but they already has a deal in China.

My guess it is a modernized Rmvb. And to be honest Rmvb is pretty good at low bitrate for Anime, even against x264.

But I think a codec that dont have Hardware Acceleration has no place today. The future, or rather the present is already mobile.
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As a Chinese...... I have never heard of that kind of deal......and cant find any of this kind of web articles referring to this... business deal? for what? I dont know any youtube-like web-stream site use real hd codec as the main solution...where did you get that "deal" information......

the "rmvb" is an ancient existence from my point of view......

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But I dont want to judge before seeing it‘s performance... how is the efficiency? and visual quality......

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so do we have new closed source codec ?
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Old 12th October 2017, 00:47   #7  |  Link
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As a Chinese...... I have never heard of that kind of deal......and cant find any of this kind of web articles referring to this... business deal? for what? I dont know any youtube-like web-stream site use real hd codec as the main solution...where did you get that "deal" information......

the "rmvb" is an ancient existence from my point of view......

......


But I dont want to judge before seeing it‘s performance... how is the efficiency? and visual quality......
Written in the news that CIBN Oriental Network (国广东方网络(北京)有限公司) will use it.
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Comparing with x264 makes sense, it's currently the mainstream codec. The claimed saving would take it into h.265 territory quality wise. They do compare it to h.265 though in terms of CPU use and battery life, only because it is supposedly much better. For the h.265 successor, efficiency needs to be worked on since it was just discussed in a recent thread. That's 64 times slower compression than h.265 and 16 times slower decompression. Savings also aren't stated, it could be only (considering requirements) 40 percent more efficient, for example. If you got an hour watching a h.265 on your phone, the battery would last about 3.5 minutes on it's successor at the current 16 times slower stat. Of course it's not exact as the screen it's only lit for the time the video plays, so that's 1 hour screen use versus 3.5 minutes.

Basically they're showing efficiency can be done, so hopefully it will give them the push they need. Nothing is said of the audio, wonder if AAC (proprietory) is used, or their own format? Codecs like Opus would be ideal, higher quality at a lower bitrate than AAC-LC (the high quality AAC variation), and unlike AAC works just as well in low bandwidth scenarios, and is more effective than AAC-HE (the AAC low bandwidth variation of AAC).

I wonder how it was achieved?
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Written in the news that CIBN Oriental Network (国广东方网络(北京)有限公司) will use it.

Cheers!~ I found the articles

http://www.cibn.cc/content/details_33_2591.html

http://www.realnetworks.com.cn/news/634

https://finance.sina.cn/2017-08-18/d...2718199.d.html


国广东方网络(北京)有限公司

but i never know 国广东方网络(北京)有限公司......

one of seven of top licensed OTT companies......looks like it has GOV background...

it may behind the curtain as an infrastructure solution provider(doubt it) or even only license distributor and do nothing shit else(make sense)

unless it forcing the licensing binding with use of real codec, otherwise no one would use real codec......


As i never heard of CIBN...... it looks like no one buy it‘s licensed broadcast......

the GOV may paid off the bill we never know......

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For the h.265 successor, efficiency needs to be worked on since it was just discussed in a recent thread. That's 64 times slower compression than h.265 and 16 times slower decompression. Savings also aren't stated, it could be only (considering requirements) 40 percent more efficient, for example. If you got an hour watching a h.265 on your phone, the battery would last about 3.5 minutes on it's successor at the current 16 times slower stat. Of course it's not exact as the screen it's only lit for the time the video plays, so that's 1 hour screen use versus 3.5 minutes.

Basically they're showing efficiency can be done, so hopefully it will give them the push they need.
That 16x is just an example worst case from the current, incredibly early state of development. I can't imagine it would be more than 2x more complex per pixel. Which is a lot smaller than the Moore's Law gains we'll have by the time it would actually ship. HEVC was only worst-case 2x more complex than H.264 in the end.

Also, the 3.5 minute example wouldn't be true even if the decoder was 16x more complex. A decoder is only a small part of the SoC and a smaller part of a device. The backlight, antenna, CPU, running Android, user interface, etcetera together use a lot more power than the decoder does today. Even switching from a H.264 hardware decoder to a HEVC software decoder won't cut battery life in half, and that's probably more than 16x watts/pixel.

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Nothing is said of the audio, wonder if AAC (proprietory) is used, or their own format? Codecs like Opus would be ideal, higher quality at a lower bitrate than AAC-LC (the high quality AAC variation), and unlike AAC works just as well in low bandwidth scenarios, and is more effective than AAC-HE (the AAC low bandwidth variation of AAC)
HE AAC is so last decade. xHE-AAC is the current hotness, which does way better than HE-AAC at low bitrates. Like Opus, it is a hybrid CELP/DCT codec that can do hybrid speech and music coding.

But in general, video and audio codec choices are decoupled these days. Codecs generally all can slot into MPEG program/transport streams, so you can mix and match based on whatever target devices can do.

For large scale streaming services, video and audio aren't even delivered from the same files or the same http requests.
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HE AAC is so last decade. xHE-AAC is the current hotness, which does way better than HE-AAC at low bitrates. Like Opus, it is a hybrid CELP/DCT codec that can do hybrid speech and music coding.
And only at low bitrate like below 64kbps.... who use that for Video? ( Correct me if I am wrong though ) . We haven't really seen any major improvement in audio encoding. As of right now I would rather use MP3 which is finally patents free, and supported everywhere, and if quality wasn't good enough just give it a little bit more bitrate to play.
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HE AAC is so last decade. xHE-AAC is the current hotness, which does way better than HE-AAC at low bitrates.
A main thumb rule says xHE-AAC requires 8 kbps less for the same quality (as formal MPEG test has indicated it). 8 kbps is a deal up to 32 kbps. It isn't so at let say 64 kbps where xHE-AAC sounds just as polished HE-AAC.

xHE-AAC isn't actually hotness of the moment. Not anymore. 3DA is.

Maybe xHE-AAC has traction between broadcast companies but it has zero presence in an internet community where Opus (Youtube, Whatsapp, a pile of VoIP apps, etc...) is implemented each day more and more.

A tuned implementation of xHE-AAC (which nobody has seen yet in a wild) could be better than Opus at 32 kbps and lower.

Anyway we won't see xHE-AAC in Netflix, Spotify, etc.. Nor MPEG surround (standard since 2007) nor 3DA (standard since 2015). Too expensive and too little advantage over Opus and AAC for popular bitrates as 48/64/96/128/160 kbps.
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https://medium.com/realnetworks/for-...s-7683a603f943

https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2017/10...detailed-look/

Looks very interesting. At first there were only comparing to x264 as we looked at it in 2017. That was v15 of their encoder. v16 has many improvement. And those are measuring on VMAF.

The encoder itself is not even on the English web page and only on Chinese.

Another thing I have in mind for a long time. How does Codec based on H.263 / H.264 / H.265 actually works? Do they paid similar fees to all the H.265 licenses, and then resell their " those licenses?

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Rate/Distortion graphs are interesting, but it’s very hard to say what it might mean without knowing the versions and command lines used for each encoder.

As for using codec patents outside of the patent pool, IANAL. The nice thing about a patent pool is you get one price for a huge number of patents, and indemnification from all patent pool members. Without that, patent licensing would have to be done bilaterally with each owner of patents.
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https://medium.com/realnetworks/for-...s-7683a603f943

https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2017/10...detailed-look/

Looks very interesting. At first there were only comparing to x264 as we looked at it in 2017. That was v15 of their encoder. v16 has many improvement. And those are measuring on VMAF.

The encoder itself is not even on the English web page and only on Chinese.

Another thing I have in mind for a long time. How does Codec based on H.263 / H.264 / H.265 actually works? Do they paid similar fees to all the H.265 licenses, and then resell their " those licenses?
That blog is almost impossible to read, particularly with the "H.EVC" nomenclature and the wish for 1/5 pel. But RV60 being a stripped-down HEVC where RV40 was a stripped down AVC isn't surprising, there hasn't been much codec innovation happening at Real in decades. I'm not sure why anyone would bother now, with a patent pool that hasn't even been fully licensed, when hardly anyone bothered when AVC had a strict patent pool.
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