"...As some of you Neuros old timers may recall, we were the first to port the Ogg Vorbis audio codec to a portable HDD audio player. Now it's time, hopefully, to do the same with the Ogg Theora video codec..."
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Rhapsody
16 years 1 day 16 hours 56 min ago
How is the quality on Theora these days?
Last I looked [ http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo.html ], the quality on Theora was pretty bad (below most major codecs, and about even with H.261), has there been much improvement on this?
Saoshyant
16 years 17 hours 41 min 45 sec ago
Re: Theora quality
I don't know if you are trolling or if you can't read. The paper you linked to is an assessment of ALL bad things about Theora, so they can be fixed in Theora 1.1. Which they will with the new encoder under development.
Currently, quality surpasses H.261, rivals Xvid and MPEG-4 ASP, and is somewhat lacking compared to h.264, and that will remain so for 1.0, which is a stability release. Xiph is working on Theora as a format that is extremely low CPU intensive and can be ported to anything; quality concerns come later.
Rhapsody
16 years 17 hours 20 min 20 sec ago
That's what I wanted!
I've had fairly long discussions over video codecs before, covering Theora quite extensively, but no one's answered my questions in such a straightforward manner as that before. I had a feeling I was getting something wrong, and now I know what.