Talk:MPEG-4 Part 2

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There seems to be a lot of factual errors in the article. This article is best written by someone who knows the intricacies of video coding. I would do it, if no one else does withing the next one month. I just want to make sure, someone more capable than me take a jab at it.


 * Great, may I suggest the first error to correct is the WTF-inducing stuff about qpel. It states:
 * The quarter-sample motion compensation feature of ASP was innovative, and was later also included (in somewhat different forms) in MPEG-4 Part 10 and VC-1. It is considered the most beneficial innovative feature of ASP.
 * Innovative? Uh, questionable. Beneficial? Who makes this stuff up? Note to whomever wrote this originally: please quit writing sweeping statements ("most beneficial and innovative"?!) about topics you're ignorant of.


 * ASP's qpel places large demands on the decoder, and in exchange for this, you usually get no improvement in quality at all. It frequently reduces quality. While the idea was kept (and indeed made mandatory) in H.264, its qpel works differently; in particular it doesn't cause such a large speed hit. Snacky 21:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Although less-mentioned, a wavelet-based still image codec is also a part of ISO 14496-2. One can quote it from a place with little copyright trouble. turanyuksel 09:17, 09 April 206 (EET DST)

work in progress.
I have started editing this page to correct and enhance the contents. The person who did the entry on H.264 could do a better job here, and so, please feel free to edit the entire content if you see this. thanks... Else I will go through a multi stage edit and make sure the content is good, by the end of the month.

Profiles
According to http://www.mpegla.com/m4v/m4v-faq.cfm current MPEG-4 Visual Standard profiles... are simple, core, main, simple scalable, N-bit, basic animated texture, scalable texture, simple FA, advanced real time simple, core scalable, advanced coding efficiency, advanced core, advanced scalable texture, simple FBA, hybrid, advanced simple, fine granularity scalable, simple studio, and/or core studio profiles as defined in ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001 [Part 2 Visual dated 2001-12-01], 14496-2:2001/Amd.1:2002 [Studio profile dated 2002-02-01], or 14496-2:2001/Amd.2:2002 [Streaming video profile dated 2002-02-01].

harmful effect on speed ?
The article says "harmful effect on speed". As a codec has no moving parts, this is ambiguous. Is it the encoding speed ? Decoding speed ? Some other speed ? --Xerces8 (talk) 11:15, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Criticisms from users?
I think something in this page should include the reality that XviD is by far the most popular codec of video encoded for p2p transfer —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.217.94.187 (talk) 12:48, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

DivX: an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 2 or MPEG-4 Part 10?
This article states that Part 2 is used by DivX, while the main article for the DivX codec states that it uses Part 10 (actually, it states that it uses H.264: "The DivX codec uses lossy H.264 compression for video", but it is my understanding that H.264 is equivalent to MPEG-4 part 10: "H.264 is a standard for video compression, and is equivalent to MPEG-4 Part 10", taken from the article on H.264). Which is correct? Is DivX an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 2 or MPEG-4 Part 10? In either case there is at least one article that must be corrected, either the DivX one, or the MPEG-4 Part 2 one, or the H.264 one (stating that H.264 is equivalent to MPEG-4 Part 10). As a counter-example, this article states that XviD is an implementation of Part 2, and, sure enough, the article on the XviD codec states the same. --ZeframCochrane (talk) 20:29, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * The DivX article should be corrected. The DivX codec (in fact, DivX is not a codec, it is just a brand name of various products made by the DivX company&mdash;like the DivX Pro Codec, for example) implements both MPEG-4 Part 2 and (in the new version 7.x) also MPEG-4 Part 10, aka H.264. The DivX article introduction used to say that the DivX codec implements MPEG-4 video compression, which was correct, because the "MPEG-4" expression includes both Part 2 and Part 10, but it was recently changed to H.264, which is not good, because version 7 supports both (Part 2 support has not been removed, for obvious reasons, H.264 support is just an additional feature).&mdash;J. M. (talk) 23:19, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

Bad title ? Bad article ?
This article should be named "MPEG-4 Part 2 Video" since it is speaking about a specific part (the video) of the "Part 2". Indeed the parent (MPEG-4) says that there is still texture, synthetic image etc. Why should this article, while being more specific, lose its accuracy ? The implications of having lots of codec inside this standard is _very_ important: it is a mess, and it is one of the reason MPEG-4 failed. We should not simplifying MPEG-4 because it is not simple: it is a big over-complicated mess. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.49.124.107 (talk) 16:30, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

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