VideoCompression

In addition to MPEG and MJPEG and QuickTime there are a variety of other approaches to video compression.

• Software decompression:
  
  
  • On 486: 30 fps with 160x120, 15 fps with 320x240
    
  • On Pentium/PowerPC approaches 30 fps with 320x240
  
  
• Video for Windows: 1992 (also Apple's Windows QuickTime)
  
• Cinepak (from SuperMac, the most popular codec)
  
• MoviePak (from RasterOps)
  
• VQ schemes with i750 compression Indeo (from Intel): Montage, Touchvision, New Video, Duck/Horizon
  
• Fractal (scalable): Iterated Systems: Total Multimedia Inc.
  
• Wavelet: Aware, Inc.: Media Vision

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