After a few hours of tinkering, he created a version that produced the kind of quality and compression performance he was after.
He played around with an early MPEG-4 codec while putting together his video portfolio but was dissatisfied with some of the settings and format options. Microsoft released an early version of an MPEG-4 compatible video codec (a portmanteau of “coder/decoder” that encodes a data stream or signal for transmission and then decodes it for playback) that looked encouraging, and for the first time high-quality Internet video seemed like a realistic proposition. A group of leading technology companies had collaborated to create a new video compression standard called MPEG-4 that promised to deliver high-visual quality at file sizes small enough to distribute online. Streaming video, to the extent that it existed, meant grainy, postage-stamp size blips in the corner of the screen.īut things were starting to change. Dial-up was still the primary connection method for most users (broadband was a luxury that wouldn’t roll out to the mainstream for a few years yet) and the idea of high-quality video over the Internet was a novelty, at best. The state of the Internet in 1999, needless to say, was quite different than it is today. Fresh out of school, Jerome was looking to create an online portfolio that would showcase the video and animation work he was doing for various clients. In 1999, Jerome (nicknamed “Gej”) was a young compositing animator and video engineer living in Montpellier, France.
Jerome Rota didn’t set out to create a digital video revolution-he just wanted to show off his work and maybe attract a few clients along the way.
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