Part 3 of a series on engineers studying the feasibility of putting the humongous BBC archive online.
This is on BBC’s open-source video codec called Dirac…The Dirac codec will infringe no patents and will be freely available worldwide for any platform including Windows, Linux and the Mac OS, potentially undercutting the market for commercial formats. It can be used for passing video round home networks, rights-managed peer-to-peer file sharing, or playing media in handheld devices, as well as for web streaming.
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