said by motorola870:said by andyross:said by SpHeRe31459:I assume some software patch would have to be made yes, it would apply to any STB that can potentially decode MPEG4, I assume the legacy iGuide software/firmware cannot handle MPEG4 transport streams. But I don't know about that for sure.
I don't think iGuide may even care about the MPEG format. That is up to the firmware of the device it's installed on. iGuide just works through an API to that to control the tuners and stuff.
Yes MPEG4 is supported on iGuide boxes as TWC has ESPN3D sent out over SDV in my area using MPEG4. It is evident with TWC where they don't have ESPN3D in most cases they don't have digital simulcast which is required in Motorola areas for MPEG4 as DCX boxes are required for it.
Oh yeah, cool. iGuide sort of blurs the line between firmware and software (a lot of iGuide seems to have some pretty low level code to make it work on old memory limited boxes, hence the issues porting to platforms other than Moto i.e. the SA/Cisco boxes and their "S Guide" port) so I wasn't sure what affects the use of MPEG4.
But that makes sense, since an MPEG transport stream is an MPEG transport stream as far as the guide and tuning, etc. go.
said by PaulGo:I believe Comcast is already using MPEG-4 on some 3D content. In my area only the boxes that were capable of MPEG-4 could be enabled for 3D.
Oh yeah quite right, I forgot about 3D since it's such a non-starter. From checking around it seems some of the 3D channels were delivered in MPEG2 and some were MPEG4.