schroedinger

[David Liguori]

On 2/7/2012 7:17 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:15 PM, david walcroft<dwalcroft at bigpond.com>  wrote:
>> My "yum update" today updated this program,I cannot find any doc's, only
>> "schroedinger's cat" on google.
>> Anybody Know what this program does?

> Description :
> The Schrödinger project will implement portable libraries for the high
> quality Dirac video codec created by BBC Research and
> Development. Dirac is a free and open source codec producing very high
> image quality video.
>
> The Schrödinger project is a project done by BBC R&D and Fluendo in
> order to create a set of high quality decoder and encoder libraries
> for the Dirac video codec.

  Schroedinger is non-relativistic, so presumably it won't decode all Diracs.  Dirac, on the other hand, is only good for spin 1/2.  Probably, this is analogous to the world of codecs in some way.