iChat AV Video Coec Questoin???? [Archive]

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yseric

Aug 19, 2003, 10:50 PM

Hi all,

The new iChat AV provides excellent quality for video conferencing. I'm wondering if anyone knows which company (maybe apple itself) provided the codec for video. I know it's H263 based.

jimthorn

Aug 19, 2003, 11:59 PM

I thought I remembered Steve Jobs saying it was an "open standard" (not open source) that other companies could use (license) to create compatible clients. I would have to imagine that it's Quicktime6/MPEG4 based.

edit: No, you're right. It apparently is H.263 based. Not much info around about it though. You might look at this (http://zeitblog.zeitgeist.com:8668/comments/2003-06-25).