# New HD Codec **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 22, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129 "2005-03-22T07:16:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bobby311](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bobby311/32/5971_2.png) [@bobby311](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bobby311)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/1 "2005-03-22T07:16:50Z")
[http://www.hdx4.com/](http://www.hdx4.com/) HDX4 was designed to deliver DVD (MPEG-2) quality at a remarkably lower bitrate resulting in a much smaller file size. E.g. a full-length movie in standard DVD (MPEG-2) format takes up approximately five gigabytes of space. The same movie, encoded with HDX4, needs just less than 700 megabytes - making it compact enough to fit on a standard CD-R(W). HDX4 dramatically advances audio and video compression, enables the interoperable distribution of content and provides a scalable and unified framework for a wide variety of different devices, e.g. mobile phones, handhelds, PDAs, TV set-top boxes, DVD players, PCs and many more. What is HDX4 today? The HDX4 codec today is the most versatile MPEG-4 implementation available. HDX4 features fastest video de- and encoding in comparison to all other competing solutions available on the market. HDX4 supports all common resolutions: Starting with 32 x 32, up to 1920 x 1080 (HDTV) and even more. HDX4 supports PAL, NTSC, Wide Screen, CIF, QCIF and all popular resolutions as well as custom user-defined picture dimensions All widely used bit rates from 16 kb/s to 4 Mb/s, ranging from very small bitrates for 3GPP compatible devices to HDTV bit rates. Accept only the highest quality video storage. HDX4 allows least-cost implementation of MPEG-4 de- and encoding in hardware. HDX4 offers VfW and DirectShow support for Windows. Solutions for Linux, Windows CE 5.0, Windows Mobile 2003, Irix, HP-UX & SunOS are also available on request… Badass you can encode a full dvd to fit on a cd!! Teh download linkage [http://www.hdx4.com/?file=download&lang=english](http://www.hdx4.com/?file=download&lang=english) ---
**Author:** ![ShalerPunk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/shalerpunk/32/5976_2.png) [@ShalerPunk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ShalerPunk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/2 "2005-03-22T07:18:14Z")
beautiful. now someone needs to make a stand-alone player for the codec. THAT would be teh hottness. ---
**Author:** ![fshowcars](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fshowcars/32/5937_2.png) [@fshowcars](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fshowcars)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/3 "2005-03-22T07:20:35Z")
good find. ---
**Author:** ![BlkP42E](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blkp42e/32/5938_2.png) [@BlkP42E](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BlkP42E)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/4 "2005-03-22T07:44:15Z")
in fo later!! ---
**Author:** ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/5 "2005-03-23T03:29:17Z")
DVD quality porn. less than 1/5th the size. excellent. ---
**Author:** ![imported\_showtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@imported\_showtime](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_showtime)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 5:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/6 "2005-03-23T05:34:05Z")
nice…anybody hear about when is MP4 gonna take over mp3? ---
**Author:** ![S10Blazed\_Si](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/s10blazed_si/32/5983_2.png) [@S10Blazed\_Si](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S10Blazed_Si)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/new-hd-codec/173129/7 "2005-03-23T06:39:08Z")
> [@ShalerPunk](#): > > beautiful. > > now someone needs to make a stand-alone player for the codec. > > THAT would be teh hottness. I’m sure the developers of XBMC for modded XBOXs will implement that soon enough…