Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Silverlight and VC-1
With Microsoft's announcement of Silverlight as a rival to Flash, interest in its underlying codec, VC-1, has increased. VC-1 is more formally known as SMPTE 421M. The really useful links are on smpte.org, but all the ones I've tried are broken at the moment. In the meantime, here are a couple of links on Microsoft's site:
VC-1 is being adopted for next-generation video formats including HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, but availability of codecs under operating systems other than Windows is limited at the moment.
# posted by Gary McGath @ 4:25 PM 
