DVD Architect 5 - Will it support VC1 & AVC ?

cliff_622 wrote on 5/6/2008, 1:38 PM
Anyboy know if DVD Architect 5 will support VC1 and/or H.264 AVC authoring?

I'm hoping I can drop in 1920 x 1080p .wmv files that I have already made without DVDA-5 recompressing it. ( I also have plenty of H.264 files too)

I know many companies only ofter HD -MPEG2 support with their software today.

How about my Sony SR12...can I dump AVCHD files without the recompress?

Anybody from Sony want to comment?

CT

Comments

bStro wrote on 5/7/2008, 9:35 AM
If it ain't in the press release, no one from Sony is gonna talk about it publicly.

Rob
MPM wrote on 5/7/2008, 3:11 PM
It still would be awful nice if SCS confirmed AVC & VC1 WMV... Otherwise they won't get the mileage out of their announcement. Lots of people have been holding off, & now that the battle's over, folks are a bit eager to really get started. IMHO SCS won't get them all back if they feel they have to turn to something else.

And hopefully DVDA 5 will keep it's rather modest requirements -- as pointed out in another forum, *IF* you could afford Blu Print, who ya going to get to make your CPU? ;-)
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/products/bluprint.asp?page=sysreqs
cliff_622 wrote on 5/9/2008, 5:36 AM
I agree,....if DVDA-5 is only MPEG2 authoring,....than yes,...that would be a shame.

Hopefully, it at least allows VC1.

CT
cliff_622 wrote on 5/22/2008, 8:40 AM
*bump*

I guess nobody knows yet.

I think the issue is critical to the sucess of the product.

C'mon Madison,...you can do it. I got faith in you!

Please get VC1/AVC authoring into DVDA5!

CT : - )
ScorpioProd wrote on 5/23/2008, 6:40 PM
Actually, I asked this question of one of the Sony guys at the booth at NAB after the demo of DVDA5 and he said that AVC would be an included capability.

He said that VC-1 was not currently planned to be in DVDA5.
cliff_622 wrote on 5/24/2008, 6:42 AM
Interesting.

I'M really curious as to how all the liscensing goes for every new Blu Ray product. I have been told that MPEG want's royalties on everything made with AVC. I assume Microsoft might be a similar situation.

I have to think that VC1 is no more complex. The profiles and .dlls have been around for a long time now.

I wonder if VC1 authoring is more of a political issue of some sort.

Well,...if at least has FULL 1920x180p capability AVC, that would be fine.

CT

Vegas needs full 1920x180p AVC too.
Robert W wrote on 6/10/2008, 2:46 AM
From memory VC1 was formalised as a standard with an aim for it to be the format of choice for the HD-DVD format, which Microsoft had a considerable interest in. I think it was added to the Blu-ray standard fairly late in the day. I personally am hoping that it is included in DVDA 5 as lets face it, it will take little or no coding to implement and it is a very easy format to render to.
MPM wrote on 6/10/2008, 8:05 AM
From what I recall Microsoft opened up everything re: VC1 in order to get it accepted, though they still own the code to generate wmv files, just like Real owns RealMedia... they just let everyone use it. The biggest downside in my opinion (my 1.1 cents worth), is that encoding takes so #$!@*!!! long versus comparable formats... Xvid & DivX are downright FAST in comparison, but then everything's faster than the base encoder, which still dates from 2002. :-(

I think there were also some patent claim issues though (what doesn't have patent claim issues?), that might have an effect on licensing & use if VC1 takes off.