You have to see this to believe it. Widevine was showing the HD Adaptive streaming at Cablelabs last week.
It was amazing to see. The clip was 1080i it was encoded in H.264. It seamlessly adapted from 2.5 Mbps to 10Mbps ...I think there were 4 or 5 different bit rates. The quality was amazing. It was playing back on Windows, Mac and a Blu-ray player.
What was even more amazing then the HD adaptive technology was that the 1080i Mbps H.264 clip played back on the PC/MAC. They attempted to play back the low bit rate version using a Flash player and silverlight and the CPU maxed out, stuterd and lost frames.
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You have to see this to believe it. Widevine was showing the HD Adaptive streaming at Cablelabs last week.
It was amazing to see. The clip was 1080i it was encoded in H.264. It seamlessly adapted from 2.5 Mbps to 10Mbps ...I think there were 4 or 5 different bit rates. The quality was amazing. It was playing back on Windows, Mac and a Blu-ray player.
What was even more amazing then the HD adaptive technology was that the 1080i Mbps H.264 clip played back on the PC/MAC. They attempted to play back the low bit rate version using a Flash player and silverlight and the CPU maxed out, stuterd and lost frames.
Sonic and Widevine really have something here.
- Morgan