Google Funds Ogg Theora For Mobile

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday April 10, 2010 @01:23AM from the swinging-for-the-fences dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google has decided to fund the development of Theora optimized for ARM processors. The article on the Open Source at Google blog notes the importance of having a universal baseline video codec for the Web: 'What is clear though, is that we need a baseline to work from — one standard format that (if all else fails) everything can fall back to. This doesn't need to be the most complex format, or the most advertised format, or even the format with the most companies involved in its creation. All it needs to do is to be available, everywhere. The codec in the frame for this is Ogg Theora, a spin off of the VP3 codec released into the wild by On2 a couple of years ago.'"

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Re:I'd prefer a CUDA accelerated encoder/decoder by Moldiver · 2010-04-10 03:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It doesn't? Theora-encoding on my quad-core xeon is roughly 5 times slower than h264-encoding of the same base-vid. I call that shitty performance and considering that the iq was much worse at roughly the same size I don't care if Theora rots somewhere to death.