- From: Chris DiBona <cdibona@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:08:26 -0400
> 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. No, but it is what I worry about. How agressive will mpeg.la be in their interpretation of the direction that theora is going? I don't think that is a reason to stop the current development direction (or the funding of it) but I thought that Dirac, with the BBC connection, might make a better opponent politically than Theora. > 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. It is client compatibility first, and global/edge bandwidth restricted as well. I'd prefer to ship with the reference libraries and have told the team as much. > Mike > -- Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc. Google's Open Source program can be found at http://code.google.com Personal Weblog: http://dibona.com
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