[Commons-l] Dirac video codec

[David Gerard]

The Dirac video codec is nearly fixed and part of it is set to become
an SMPTE standard. The BBC has tried hard to ensure it is as
unencumbered as possible.

    http://dirac.sourceforge.net/specification.html

Apart from the coder and decoder both being somewhat inefficient at
present, I understand there isn't much that plays it back as yet (VLC
in experimental builds).

What would we need before allowing Dirac-encoded video on Wikimedia?


- d.