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Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4

Posted by timothy on from the good-use-for-that-beta-you-downloaded dept.

icknay writes "With the upcoming Firefox 3.5 and HTML5 video, there's natural interest in Theora vs. Mpeg-4, but without much evidence either way. Here's clips encoded at various rates to provide concrete comparison between Theora and Mpeg-4. Theora performs decently, but requires more bandwidth than Mpeg-4 (although this is a 1.1alpha release of Theora and Theora has a much better license than Mpeg-4). The quality comparisons are very subjective, but you can try the clips yourself and see how it breaks down. There was an earlier discussion about this, but it lacked much concrete evidence. (Disclosure: it's my page.)"

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  1. Re:Theora sucks a nut by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So, can you tell us how you really feel about Theora?

  2. Re:I thought Theora was GPL-ed? by TheRaven64 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why would you think Theora was GPL'd? It's from the Xiph foundation, and all of their code is BSD-licensed to encourage widespread adoption.

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  3. Like anyone really cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "Theora has a much better license than Mpeg-4"

    So what? No, seriously...why should I care what kind of software license I "agree" to when I use MPEG4? I can never quite understand why this should matter to me. I'm sure this will elicit many cries of "FREEDOM!" but to date I have not encountered any situation where my alleged lack of "freedom" has actually hindered me from doing what I wanted to do with the media I was attempting to access.

    So without the rhetoric, why the fuck should I care about this?

  4. Chips? by sunderland56 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can buy off-the-shelf parts to decode MPEG4. Where are the chips to decode Theora available?