On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Richard Jones <[email protected]>wrote:
> > Unfortunately, in the world of video there is no > > one-format-to-rule-them-all. The three possible contenders for that title > > are probably H.264, Theora and WebM, but each comes with significant > > drawbacks (licensing on non-Apple platforms, poor quality, and poor > encoding > > speed, respectively). > > If cutting down the number of formats is a popular idea, then I would > > suggest making those 3 the base set of formats, and get someone with > > extensive video experience to benchmark quality/size/speed of all 3 and > > provide a discussion of their relative merits. > > I don't believe the discussion is about removing support for codecs > (they're all built into ffmpeg and avbin is just a thin, sane ABI > around ffmpeg). The discussion is about which codecs should be present > in the avbin test suite. > > An avbin that restricts itself to supporting WebM (or even one that > supports WebM and h.264 and Theora) is useless. > > Richard Yes, I assumed we were talking about 'supported' as in 'tested'. I am arguing against the idea that we should recommend one format over another in the test suite and/or documentation. It might be that we can define a small cluster of formats (for which my list of [H.264, Theora, WebM] is just a suggestion), which covers 90% of use cases, but there are always going to be cases where a different format provides a better fit. -- Tristam MacDonald System Administrator, Suffolk University Math & CS Department http://swiftcoder.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pyglet-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyglet-users?hl=en.
