Comments on: continued theora improvements

By: hippy3000

hippy3000 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:28:45 +0000

i donit no jack-shit about wat u guyz r all talking about…peace out!

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:55:30 +0000

We’ve thought about it, yeah, but I think it would be a surprise for users to discover that Firefox was installing random software on their compute.r

By: basic

basic — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:01:35 +0000

Has anyone thought of distributing the theora quicktime components with the Mac version of Firefox?

By: Theora Improvements | Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage

Theora Improvements | Robert Accettura’s Fun With Wordage — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:14:08 +0000

[...] was a push to improve open video, something I think is very important for the future of the web. Chris Blizzard pointed to a recent Theora update which includes screenshots of the progress that has been made. [...]

By: Theora Encoder’s Recent Update Yields Visible Improvements | google android os blog

Sat, 09 May 2009 12:00:08 +0000

[...] Blizzard kindly drew my attention to an update on the improvements being made on the Theora encoder. Though the details given about [...]

By: Links 08/05/2009: Dell and Android on Sub-notebooks? | Boycott Novell

Links 08/05/2009: Dell and Android on Sub-notebooks? | Boycott Novell — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:02:44 +0000

[...] continued theora improvements Monty posted another update on the work that’s been going on to improve the Theora encoder. It’s worth re-posting here because I think that it includes some compelling images and graphs that show you improvements. So I would suggest that people wander over and have a look at his update. [...]

By: Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:24:36 +0000

I think that it’s a pretty good codec at the medium range. I think that later benchmarks will show it a little behind H.264 across a range of benchmarks, but not by much.

I don’t know about screencasts – I suspect that it is fine there based on the ones that I’ve generated. But I also suspect that there are more appropriate codecs for that that optimize for that case.

By: David Tenser

David Tenser — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:08:31 +0000

Very cool. I’m suspecting that Theora is first and foremost a video codec meant to be used for real video footage/films/cameras. The still image analogy would be jpeg.

Is there anything similar for screen projected video, e.g. screencasts? The still image analogy would be png or gif. In other words, video that has sharp pixel-accurate edges, and straight, non-blurry lines, etc.

By: links for 2009-05-08 « ideas are free

links for 2009-05-08 « ideas are free — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:05:03 +0000

[...] continued theora improvements Theora, the open video codec, has made substantial improvements to its encoding technology that will enable it to produce files in some cases exceeding the quality H.264. For no licensing fee you can implement top quality video technology into your products rather than the $millions required for H.264. Of note is that the next release of Firefox, a web browser used by in excess of 1/5th of the internet population, will support theora video with no extra plugins required. (tags: theora open_source open_standards video film it multimedia fluendo firefox internet intellectual_property standards solaris oracle gnome digital_culture desktop community computing copyright) [...]

By: Robert Wohlrab

Robert Wohlrab — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:59:53 +0000

Hi,
nice picture. As you stated before it is better than h264 (i think you mean x264 implementation). Can you please generate this picture with xvid, x264 and dirac (not schroedinger) and post it here? I would be interested.

But big thanks to everyone who done something for Ogg Theora :)