Chinese AVS codec, rivaling H.264, is rising
Posted by Sachin Garg on 22nd February 2006 | Permanent Link
A Chinese audio/video codec is on the verge of becoming a national standard–a domestic rival to MPEG-4/H.264 and WMV-9 that backers say will save China-based manufacturers and consumers at least tens of millions of dollars in fees and royalties during the next few years.
Since mid-2002, the Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) has been inching its way through a relatively open technical-development process. China’s Ministry of Information Industry recently completed a one-year review and quietly approved AVS in December as a candidate for a national compression standard, passing it to the Standards Administration of China, which should formally OK it in the coming months.
That would mark a small victory for Chinese standards setters because the effort to craft the codec was largely transparent, with more than 130 domestic and foreign companies, as well as universities, taking part in the AVS Working Group.
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February 23rd, 2006 at 8:51 pm
Any reason to believe this codec is anything other than the ON2 VP6 source which was “borrowed”/licensed from ON2 Technologies, originally for the EVD project of China. The same project that was mysteriously scrapped after Chinese had in their grasp, the source code of ON2’s IP? Strangely enough, ON2 had to go through arbitration to try and get the fees owed for the initial porting….they are still waiting for the check I assume - but isn’t that typical of the Chinese genius’….so creative this group. Amazing how they can develop such a complicated algorithm in such short a time…I guess kudo’s are in order to their manipulative genius. Be sure to run right out to Wal-Mart and buy as many of these AVS enabled devices as you need…isn’t that what capitalism is all about, the ability to prosper for the hard work of building a better mousetrap? Hopefully, they will get what is coming to them.
February 26th, 2006 at 7:34 am
The AVS Codec that is comming out of China wont make it simply because the tech. belongs to ON2 Technologies which curently has the best video codec (VP7) in the world. And ON2s VP6 Codec is the one this AVS is trying to steal lets just hope they get whats comming to them.
February 26th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
I dont know much about how this video compression thing works inside, but if it is same as your VP6, why not run both compressors on same video files and post some benchmark results.
If the codecs are same, results should be same or atleast close on different types of videos.
February 27th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
I like sandman’s suggestion. Results should show some correlation if Chinese codec is based on On2’s technology.
btw, this was discussed earlier also.
March 29th, 2006 at 6:43 am
“Amazing how they can develop such a complicated algorithm in such short a time…” from grind_out_the_profit. That is a funny statement, huh! The Chinese people sent their astronauts into space last year. Is a video coding standard really that complicated?