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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.
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