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.
