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Five years of live compression improvements
by Ben Waggoner on Jun 6, 2008 at 6:26:56 am

So, web video looks a lot better than it used to. The big part of that is due to massive increases in consumer bandwidth. But improvements in codecs also have played a significant part.

Just curious to quantify it, I did a test comparing today's latest Windows Media live encoder in Expression Encoder 2 compared to the launch version of WMV9 from 2003. It's a pretty dramatic difference.

Here's samples, plus a potentially interesting chart.

http://on10.net/blogs/benwagg/What-a-difference-a-half-decade-makes-Live-VC...

Ben Waggoner
Principal Video Strategist, Silverlight
Microsoft Corporation

Compression Blog: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/
Compression Classes at Stanford and PSU: on10.net/blogs/benwagg/21622/

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