Is WM9 a viable storage format?

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/10/2004, 4:17 PM

Just as the subject asks. Just looking for a way to avoid having to recapture. I am guessing that using VBR unconstrained would be the best route. Thoughts?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 7/10/2004, 4:23 PM

Sort of. It's a compressed format, but identical to DV at equal bitrates. Microsoft would like to do away with avi completely, if what I hear in the wind is true, and Windows Media will/would be its replacement.

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/10/2004, 4:28 PM

Replacement as if recording video in wm9 format to tapes or just the avi container for the computer? Personally I would be happy to see the avi container disappear especially since everyone puts all kinds of junk etc... in them.

The more I try to stay with Mpeg-4 and waiting out the H264 encodes, the more impatient I get especially when WM9 already gives comparable if not even the same quality that H264 will deliver.

Any word on when these companies are releasing the hardware players that support wm9 HD?

farss wrote on 7/10/2004, 5:42 PM

I thought the Bravo was already out there.
I'm looking at a locally made unit that does DivX, XVid and mpeg-4, will output both interlaced and progressive simultaneously. Oh and it'll play DVDs as well at upto 19 Mb/sec with upscaling to HiDef. I've been trying to convince the guy to include WMV 9 HiDef as well but I think licencing maybe an issue and he seems to not like propreitary codecs.

p@mast3rs wrote on 7/10/2004, 5:50 PM

Bravo D3 still isnt out nor is the Kiss DP-600 which both support WM9/WM9 HD. Just wish something would come out so Im not locked to PC for playback.