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Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard
bmullan writes "Dailymotion, one of the world's largest video sites, announced support for Open Video. They've put out a press release, a blog post on the new Open Video site, and an HTML 5 demo site where you can see some of the things that you can do with open video and Firefox 3.5. (You can get the Firefox 3.5 beta here.) Dailymotion is automatically transcoding all of the content that their users create, and expect to have around 300,000 videos in the open Ogg Theora and Vorbis formats."
It would be nice if some big sites like youtube get rid of flash too, but I'm not holding my breath.
No it wouldn't be nice. The h.264 codec that is used to stream their content is far and away better than that Theora garbage format.
But Theora has come a long way since then, coming much closer to x264's fidelity.
You must have missed the retraction that was done when it was shown that they were calculating PSNR wrong for x264. Theora is nowhere near the quality of even a low-range h.264 codec.
'Publishing' the graph like that drew well-deserved scrutiny and unfortunately our own data was also off (although by considerably less). ffmpeg had another bug we didn't know about which caused it to mishandle the colorspace on x264 output, so the x264 PSNR value was too low by 1-4dB. Greg fixed the error in the data collection and immediately set about collecting new measures:
You're just pissy because your first post in this discussion was marked Flamebait. So now you just repeat yourself uselessly though you were careful to make it look like a useful reply because you're devious like that. What a sore loser crybaby you are!
That's because they still don't have support for the video tag yet. The GP is full of shit to claim that Opera has support for it yet.
apple is a bunch of loonies that prefer others pay them patent licenses to *them*..
oh. it seems apple has patents related to x264 in the form of the quicktime multiplex format... how practical...
h264 will impose moneys to be paid to the MPEG-LA for each second of encoded video after 2010...
and that, my friend, is a big no-no
But no end user is going to pay any of the patent royalties and for a company like Google the cost of using h.264 will be pocket change as the patent fees top out at just a few million a year. So since Google is more than able to pay the fees it would be well worth that investment to not drop it in favor of some garbage format like Theora.