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

[Tethys]

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Nix writes:

>> complaining about supposed technical and quality issues with Ogg
>> Theora, but frankly they appear to work fine for me.
>
>It works OK for things without shaded colourfields in it, with its only
>big problem being a far higher bitrate than is sane. Unfortunately
>videos featuring human beings and videos set indoors contain shaded
>colourfields, and then things get really blocky and disgusting.

Well, no. It doesn't look as good as it should, or as good as other
codecs do. But blocky and disgusting? The point is, it's at least
usable, and when the options are that or nothing (because let's face
it, none of the better performing codecs satisfy the W3C's patent
requirements), then Theora is at least sufficient. It would allow
people to use a common video format on the web, albeit one that's
worse quality and with larger file sizes than the state of the art.
I'd say that has to be a win.

Tet
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