The Sorenson codec (also known as Sorenson Video Codec, Sorenson Video Quantizer or SVQ) is a digital video codec devised by the company Sorenson Media. Digital video is a type of Video recording system that works by using a Digital rather than an analog video signal A codec is a device or program capable of encoding and/or decoding a Digital Data stream or signal. It is used in Apple's QuickTime and in Macromedia Flash. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics QuickTime is a Multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc, capable of handling various formats of Digital video, Media clips sound text Adobe Flash (previously called Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a set of Multimedia software created by Macromedia and currently
The Sorenson Video codec first appeared with the release of QuickTime 3 on March 30, 1998. Events 240 BC - 1st recorded Perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) With QuickTime 4, it was given wide exposure for the release of the teaser trailer for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace on March 11, 1999. Star Wars Episode I Phantom Menace is a 1999 military sci-fi film written and directed by George Lucas. Events 1425 BC - Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Sorenson Video 2 was released in March 1999; however, it mainly included minor improvements and optimizations to the Developer Edition of the encoder, as movies encoded with it were backwards compatible with the Sorenson Video decoder. An improved Sorenson Video 3 codec debuted with the release of QuickTime 5. 0. 2 on July 1, 2001. "July 1st" redirects here For the Ayumi Hamasaki song see H (song. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. As Apple began to move away from proprietary codecs with its embrace of MPEG-4, Sorenson Media next licensed the newest version of the codec to Macromedia as Sorenson Spark (Sorenson H.263), released with Macromedia Flash 6/MX on March 4, 2002. MPEG-4 is a collection of methods defining compression of audio and visual (AV digital data Macromedia was a North American graphics and Web development Software house headquartered in San Francisco, California producing such products H263 is a Video codec standard originally designed as a low-bitrate compressed format for Videoconferencing. Events 51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title Princeps iuventutis (head of the youth See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. [1] The specifications of the codec were not public, and for a long time the only way to play back Sorenson video was to use Apple's QuickTime player, or the MPlayer for Unix/Linux, which in turn piggy-backed Microsoft Windows DLL-files extracted from Apple's player. Apple Inc, ( formerly Apple Computer Inc, is an American Multinational corporation with a focus on designing and manufacturing Consumer electronics QuickTime is a Multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc, capable of handling various formats of Digital video, Media clips sound text MPlayer is a free and Open source media player. The program is available for all major Operating systems including Linux Something that is piggy-backed (archaically known as pickaback) is something that is riding on the back of something else Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft.
According to an anonymous developer[2] of FFmpeg, reverse engineering of the SVQ3 codec revealed it as a tweaked version of H.264. FFmpeg is a computer program that can record convert and stream digital audio and Video in numerous formats Reverse engineering (RE is the process of discovering the technological principles of a device object or system through analysis of its structure function and operation H264 is a standard for Video compression. It is also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, or MPEG-4 AVC (for Advanced Video Coding) The same developer also added support for this codec to FFmpeg, making native playback possible on all platforms supported by FFmpeg.
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