14 full length movies on a single CD-ROM?

April 11, 2006

IM4AQT and DamnedIfIknow used our news submit to tell us "Hmmm....while maintaining the same quality? Impressive if true. We all know how crappy video conferencing looks."

Euclid Discoveries is claiming a new video-compression technology that could make a splash on the video confrencing scene if it is any good. However, at these rates, what sort of a product can we expect to see? Using what they call "object-based compression," the process identifies individual objects shown in a video, then calculates the optimum level of compression for each of them.

Euclid Discoveries says its scientists compressed a 25-megabyte conference video to just over 8,000 bytes using MPEG-4, but EuclidVision did four times better, shrinking the file to about 1,800 bytes. As a result, Euclid Discoveries says a full-length movie that requires 700 megabytes of storage when compressed using MPEG-4 would use just 50 megabytes when compressed with EuclidVision. At that size, 14 movies could fit on a standard CD-ROM disk. As for video downloading, it would take an hour for someone with a 1.5 megabit-per-second broadband connection to download a 700-megabyte file. But 50 megabytes would take less than five minutes.

That's a bit odd, as it was 4 times better than MPEG4 on the 8,000 byte file, but it kicked some major butt on the 700 meg file shaving it down to 50, some 14 times smaller. What about sound as well? If you would like to read the article in its entirety at the source, then please visit this link to Boston.com.

Source: Boston.com