User talk:Pawnbroker

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Hello, can you please explain why you moved MPEG-4 Layer 10 back to H.264? I believe people have been trying to standardise the names of all the audio codecs. -- FirstPrinciples 05:50, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

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My perception is that the three most common names are H.264 or AVC or MPEG-4 AVC. No one properly calls it MPEG-4 Layer 10 ever (the correct term for the standards in the MPEG-4 suite is "part", not "layer"). The longstanding name of the page has been H.264, and I consider the attempt to rename it to be inappropriate, as it is the name used for the development of the page and is highly prevalent and not incorrect. Yes, people have been trying to get convergence on the naming, but different people seem to be trying to get convergence on different names. I see no reason to change the established page name from a correct one to an incorrect one.

Partly the problem is that this technical design fits into two families - ITU-T H.26x and ISO/IEC MPEG-x part x standards. Although H.264 and MPEG-4 part 10 are technically identical, they are formally two different standards. If there is only one page for the technology, the naming in one of the families is going to look a little funny.

(Also, this is video, not audio.)

OK, that's cool. I just wanted to make sure there was some rationale behind the move. Personally I have been quite confused by all the varying names, acronymns, etc. in this category. Thanks for your quick response. :) -- FirstPrinciples 06:57, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)