Re: [whatwg] Suitable video codec
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.
[whatwg] Suitable video codec
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.
Re: [whatwg] Suitable video codec
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:51 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: The Thusnelda coder is outdoing H.,264 in current tests: Be careful how glowing you make this sound -- this is on a particular objective test (not subjective, and thus perversely less accurate in reflecting how good do people think this looks), and only based on one video clip. That's not to diminish the Theora work at all -- the results are also subjectively better IMO, and Theora getting better is a win no matter what. PK
