A Ventuz Plyback Codec
Posted: 06 Jun 2014, 12:05
Although Ventuz is very much about Realtime, there are many clients who are looking for a playback solution of videos with ever increasing resolution and not interested in the realtime aspect for various reasons. They make their money and only have experience with the traditional products - After Effects, C4D etc. They have control over the design of the content and keep the relationship with their client - very closely.
4k reslution and above is soon becoming the normal as LCD and LED walls are getting higher and higher resolution, and cheaper.
Often we are being asked to supply a solution of just simple video playback of resolutions around 10 - 12m pixels. A number of manufactures have risen to the challenge and written their own Codec to support higher resolutions. A contender on the scene with their new screen controller http://www.aviary-videotools.com/products/par4keet uses their own codec FlexRes to be able to playback upto 12m pixels.
Now on looking at this box, it is clearly not a Ventuz! But companies like myself have to look at return on investment, and if Ventuz can be 'all things to all men' and can achieve the same thing but offering more, then it makes commercial sense. I dont want to own a number of different boxes to offer to clients. To learn yet another system. I want one box (Ventuz) to be the solution of choice. The box to go to each time.
I do think at the moment that Ventuz is lacking in this area and with GPU technology advancing then it must make sense to use a codec that is decoding through the GPU. I dont know enough about GPU technology, and there may be many reasons why its not possible in Ventuz?
Regards
Peter
4k reslution and above is soon becoming the normal as LCD and LED walls are getting higher and higher resolution, and cheaper.
Often we are being asked to supply a solution of just simple video playback of resolutions around 10 - 12m pixels. A number of manufactures have risen to the challenge and written their own Codec to support higher resolutions. A contender on the scene with their new screen controller http://www.aviary-videotools.com/products/par4keet uses their own codec FlexRes to be able to playback upto 12m pixels.
Now on looking at this box, it is clearly not a Ventuz! But companies like myself have to look at return on investment, and if Ventuz can be 'all things to all men' and can achieve the same thing but offering more, then it makes commercial sense. I dont want to own a number of different boxes to offer to clients. To learn yet another system. I want one box (Ventuz) to be the solution of choice. The box to go to each time.
I do think at the moment that Ventuz is lacking in this area and with GPU technology advancing then it must make sense to use a codec that is decoding through the GPU. I dont know enough about GPU technology, and there may be many reasons why its not possible in Ventuz?
Regards
Peter