Mihai, thanks for responding. Here some notes:
In my opinion, Theora is a decent codec for video storage and playback, but sub-par when it comes to realtime applications such as video conferencing.
I think that h.263 is primarily focused on videoconferencing, and I encounter no obeyable realtime drawback when I'm testing with theora. Its main advantage is smooth image movements rendering when bandwidth is limited (contrary to h.263, tested with linphone client, peer2peer). I mention h.263 because many clients support it, as well as theora is also supported by many clients (linphone, ekiga, ...).
As you can see, we had to go through some pains to get things running.
OK, but that does not hinder to implement a fairly simple(?) feedthrough of popular codecs. It is regrettable that your patch didn't get the finishing touch, where I believe that the core team had been able to help with this - and was unmotivated due to limited bit field resources.
Unfortunately, at the time, Theora was the only license free video codec available, so we had to go with it. Nowadays, you also have WebM - it
... and P8K, for example. Well, in both cases, limited client support - today.
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