On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:17:54AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > http://www.osnews.com/story/21451/Theora_Pulling_Ahead_of_H264 > > "Chris Montgomery, otherwise known as Monty, is the founder of Xiph.org > foundation and creator of the Ogg container format. He has been > sponsored by Red Hat for several years to improve the codec quality of > Theora and the next generation version, called Thusnelda, is already > proving to be better than H264 as bitrate increases. Monty has posted > some test results demonstrating the improvements. Chris Blizzard from > Mozilla Foundation has some updates as well." I think that all Monty states is that Thusnelda is improving, and closing the gap to x264, before other subjective tuning measures are applied. I infer from his statements that he believes Thusnelda will at some point be as good or better than x264, but it hasn't happened yet according to his page: http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
