- From: Mike Shaver <mike.shaver@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:45:50 -0400
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Chris DiBona<cdibona at gmail.com> wrote: > I tried funding dirac a while back, to some good end, and we provide > students, but here's the challenge: Can theora move forward without > infringing on the other video compression patents? We certainly believe so, but I'm certainly not qualified to evaluate the different techniques. Would Theora inherently be any less able to than any other codec system, though? I hope you're not saying that it has to be H.264 forever, given the spectre of the streaming license changes at the end of 2010. If Youtube is held back by client compatibility, they should be glad that we're working hard to move ~25% of the web to having Theora support in the near future! Google could help that cause a lot by putting (well-encoded, ahem) Theora up there, even if it's just in the experimental /html5 area. It wouldn't hurt to use the reference libraries rather than ffmpeg for the client either, since we've found significant differences in quality of experience there. Mike
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