Re: Theora pulling ahead of H264
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:17:54AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
http://www.osnews.com/story/21451/Theora_Pulling_Ahead_of_H264
"Chris Montgomery, otherwise known as Monty, is the founder of Xiph.org
foundation and creator of the Ogg container format. He has been
sponsored by Red Hat for several years to improve the codec quality of
Theora and the next generation version, called Thusnelda, is already
proving to be better than H264 as bitrate increases. Monty has posted
some test results demonstrating the improvements. Chris Blizzard from
Mozilla Foundation has some updates as well."
I think that all Monty states is that Thusnelda is improving, and
closing the gap to x264, before other subjective tuning measures are
applied. I infer from his statements that he believes Thusnelda will
at some point be as good or better than x264, but it hasn't happened
yet according to his page:
http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html
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