Dirac is a new general purpose video compression system, suitable for resolutions from internet streaming to HDTV, that has been developed by the BBC. Dirac achieves state of the art compression ...

The BBC is poised to release a free and “open source” internet video delivery system to compete head on with proprietary favourites. The UK corporation has developed its own video compression ...

Digital Video is large. Really large. A professional quality HD studio video camera produces just over a gigabit every second (1 Gb/s) when making the kind of video we currently show on BBC HD (which ...

An international standards team is close to approving a new compression format for digital video, promising improvements as well as a few uncertainties for emerging multimedia technology. Known as ...