[Gllug] [Fwd: [piksel] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5]

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Thu, December 20, 2007 01:38, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:00:03PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>> On 18 Dec 2007, Richard Huxton verbalised:
>> > The problem is that you and I can see the value in free codecs, but if
>> > you round down to the nearest 1% then there are *no* users of
>> > Ogg/Vorbis.
>>
>> There are no users of Ogg Theora, and no technical advantages of it over
>> other formats. (It's bad enough that I can't imagine transcoding any of
>> my existing videos into it.)
>
> You don't have to be the best to be useful. Of course it helps if your
> not by far the worst. This document outlines the various flaws in the
> current Theora code...
>
> http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo.html
>
> and demonstrates how many can addresses so Theora is at least of
> comparable
> quality to other common codecs. Though it'll never be the best codec, it
> is being improved such that it will be useful, particularly since it is
> one of the very few open codecs available.  The long term hope has got
> to be Dirac or another codec using state of the art designs.
>
> Dan.
>


Yes, I agree. I think that Once dirac reaches 1.0, dirac/vorbis in a
matroska container will blow everything else away.

But for now theora/vorbis in an ogg container is the best compromise.


Gabriel.



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