Comparison Of H.264 And VC-1
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VC-1 SMPTE 421, informally known as VC-1, is a video coding format. Most of it was initially developed as Microsoft's proprietary video format Windows Media Video 9 in 2003. With some enhancements including the development of a new Advanced Profile, ...
are popular
video compression In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Any particular compression is either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression ...
standards gaining use in the industry .


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AVC/H264 Licensing costs and terms from MPEG LA

EEtimes comparison of video codecs
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Codec challenge comparison on Doom9 with professional VC1 encoder, PeP, and x264 for H264 => x264 win the first round

Microsoft employee discusses differences between VC-1 and H.264

Comparison at Doom9
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