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Dirac is a video codec, under development by BBC R&D, and initially
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released in March 2003.
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Dirac is a general-purpose video codec aimed at resolutions from QCIF
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(180x144) to HDTV (1920x1080) progressive or interlaced. It uses wavelets,
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motion compensation and arithmetic coding and aims to be competitive with
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other state of the art codecs.
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