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Theora Development Continues Apace, VP8 Now Open Source
SergeyKurdakov writes "Monty 'xiphmont' Montgomery of the Xiph Foundation says the latest action-packed, graph- and demo-clip-stuffed Theora project update page (demo 9) is now up for all and sundry! Catch up on what's gone into the new Theora encoder Ptalarbvorm over the last few months. It also instructs how to pronounce 'Ptalarbvorm.' Ptalarbvorm is not a finished release encoder yet, though I've personally been using it in production for a few months. Pace on improvements hasn't slowed down — the subjective psychovisual work being done by Tim Terriberry and Greg Maxwell has at least doubled-again on the improvements made by Thusnelda, and they're not anywhere near done yet. As a bonus Monty gathered all Xiph demo pages in one place."
Also on the video codec front, and also with a Xiph connection, atamido writes "Google has released On2's VP8 video codec to the world, royalty-free. It is packaging it with Vorbis audio, in a subset of the Matroska container, and calling it WebM. It's not branded as an exclusively Google project — Mozilla and Opera are also contributors. Builds of your favorite browsers with full support are available."
An anonymous reader points out this technical analysis of VP8.
Ballmer's Cock Jock is out in full force with a post that has almost nothing to do with current topic. As a bonus, watch idiot Slashdot moderators mod it up (along with sopssa's sockpuppets) to +insightful or some other fucktardation level. I mean some vague and captain obvious style post about Flash shit in a post about Xiph, Theora and VP8 should be modded to +5 insightful right?
AM I RITE GUYZ!?
WARNING! The "Analysis" consists of goatse images encoded in several different video formats.
But is it really patent free?
Almost certainly not, since many parts of it are very similar (or identical) to h.264 (and yet it still manages to come up significantly inferior by lacking some of the most important bits).
No thanks, I'll take an objective analysis over a rushed out piece of FUD from non-credible ffmpeg/x264 developers any day.
Does slashdot somehow page you when a new article is posted so you can get a first post, or are you really that bored...
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listen retard, when you don't know what you're talking about (and you obviously don't), just shut the fuck up, ok?
Key line from the review, when talking about VP8's encoder and decoder:
Further, certain aspects of VP8 were directly ripped from h.264 - not a good sign at all, especially since Google says this spec is final.