- From: Michael Dale <dale@ucsc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 08:45:35 -0700
yea.. the take home point is that Theora now has an encoder that puts it in the same ballpark as contemporary proprietary codecs. I would not say Theora is "outdoing h.264". The results of a given PSNR test are impressive and important to publicize but I think my wording in posting about that test might have promoted overstating the quality factor. The only quality that really mattered in terms of standardization has stayed constant: which is Ogg Theora is /royalty free/ and implementable in both proprietary and free software browsers. --michael David Gerard wrote: > H.264 was advocated here for the <video> element as higher quality > than competing codecs such as Theora could ever manage. > > The Thusnelda coder is outdoing H.,264 in current tests: > > http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html > > This is of course developmental work. I'm sure the advocates of H. 264 > can also tune its encoders to keep up, and not make Theora the only > reasonable candidate for the <video> element. > > > - d.
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