Dirac 1.0 released (an advanced royalty-free video compression format from BBC)

wmf · on Sept 19, 2008

A more accurate headline would be dirac-research codebase (which should only be used by codec researchers, not users) 1.0 released.

The version that users should use (Schroedinger) hit 1.0 a while ago.

newt0311 · on Sept 19, 2008

How does this compression format compare against H.264 (ignoring licensing and patent issues)?

ComputerGuru · on Sept 20, 2008

However, it promises significant savings in bandwidth and improvements in quality over these codecs, by some claims even superior to those promised by the latest generation of codecs such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or SMPTE's VC-1 (which is based on Microsoft's WMV 9).

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_(codec)