The BBC is poised to release a free and "open source" Internet video delivery system to compete head on with proprietary favourites.
The UK corporation has developed its own video compression algorithm, called Dirac, which will provide an alternative to the video file formats used by Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Apple's Quicktime and RealPlayer from Real.
Video compression algorithms reduce the size of a file by cutting out redundant information while retaining as much quality as possible - crucial to delivering video via the Internet effectively.
Source: New Scientist
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