- From: Chris DiBona <cdibona@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:11:23 -0400
Hi greg; I'll pass this on, it's a good post. Have you considered other kinds of video tests as well? (something cell shaded, more movement/action, etc...) as it stands, it's useful, with more examples, it might be more convincing as an argument for Theora. Chris On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 1:15 AM, Gregory Maxwell<gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Chris DiBona<cdibona at gmail.com> wrote: >> Comparing Daily Motion to Youtube is disingenuous. If yt were to >> switch to theora and maintain even a semblance of the current youtube >> quality it would take up most available bandwidth across the internet. > [snip] > > I'm not sure what mixture of misinformation and hyperbole inspired > this remark, but I believe that it is misleading and to leave it stand > without comment would be a disservice to this working group. > > I have prepared a detailed response: > http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html > > > I understand that the selection and implementation of video, > especially at the scale of YouTube, is worlds apart from such a > simplistic comparison. But you didn't claim that Theora support would > be inconvenient, that it would require yet-unjustified expenditure, or > that the total cost would simply be somewhat higher than the H.264 > solution. You basically claimed that Theora on YouTube would destroy > the internet. ?I'd consider that too silly to respond to if I didn't > know that many would take it as the literal truth. > > Even though I wish Google were doing more to promote open video, I > appreciate all that it has done so far. ?I hope that I'll soon be able > to add a retraction or amendment of that claim to the list. > > > Cheers, > Greg Maxwell > -- 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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