At the moment, is it possible to obtain Blu-ray image quality using solely free formats? If so, how would you suggest? (Note that I have only elementary knowledge of multimedia systems).
Thanks, Ilias K.
Dear Ilias,
On Sunday 05 January 2014 05:58:19 ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr wrote:
At the moment, is it possible to obtain Blu-ray image quality using solely free formats? If so, how would you suggest?
As far as I know Blue-ray videos are ordinary videos that just have a "high" resolution (more pixels and therefore more detail, more sharpness) plus nasty DRM.
You can have a high resolution with all free codecs as well. The Matroska container with VP8 (WebM) or VP9 codec is usually a good choice.
Kind Regards, Torsten
Hi Ilias,
What exactly do you want to do? Taking photos/movies with a camera or playing bluray discs or even something completely different?
Bye Michael
Hi Ilias,
I don't know what do you exactly mean with 'Blu-ray image quality', but I think the short answer is undoubtedly 'yes'.
At Wikipedia, you can find info about: - Blu-ray Disc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, the non-free video compression format used by Blu-ray Disc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC - WebM, an audio-video container format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM - VP8, the video compression format that can be an alternative to H.264: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP8 - VP9, a successor to VP8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9 - FFmpeg, a free software project that produces libraries and programs for handling multimedia and data and has a native VP9 decoder since October 3, 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg
Best regards
Vicen
El dom, 05-01-2014 a las 05:58 +0200, ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr escribió:
At the moment, is it possible to obtain Blu-ray image quality using solely free formats? If so, how would you suggest? (Note that I have only elementary knowledge of multimedia systems).
Thanks, Ilias K.
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+ 2014-01-05 Sun 04:58, ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr:
At the moment, is it possible to obtain Blu-ray image quality using solely free formats? If so, how would you suggest? (Note that I have only elementary knowledge of multimedia systems).
IIRC, Blu-Ray media is usually encoded using H.264. VP8 is a good video codec alternative to this, so you should probably research in that direction. VP8 is also the video codec used by webm (for the web).