16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
8:30 p.m.
Excerpts from nettings's message of 2010-02-16 22:20:54 +0100:
On 02/16/2010 09:41 PM, hollunder wrote:
I basically agree, so it's a matter of getting the information/opinion
out there. For me last years lac video quality was fine, and I was
watching it live (thanks ;)). I said that in a comment on some html
guy's html5/video blog that asked for opinion and I hope it helps in
some way.
The question really is: how do you demonstrate that theora is there? How
do you manage to get word out into the world that it actually is good
enough and has benefits?
Excerpts from Jörn Nettingsmeier's message of
2010-02-16 21:22:48 +0100:
that should be really obvious to you and me. not so in corporate droid
brains...
(sticks a cardboard periscope on head, dances
about and chants "i'm the
submarine patent threat")
And one can get you with any format :) Most concerns seem to go into the quality and
filesize direction, so if
it got a lot better the information should be spread somehow.
well, it definitely got a lot better. it is still slightly inferior to
almost every proprietary codec out there, but guess what: i don't care,
because it's good enough for web content.
cpu is getting cheaper by second, bandwith even more so.
the trade-off between huge licensing costs for content creators, vendor
lock-in and closed-source plugin hassles on the one hand ("oh, you're
using $fooBSD? so sorry, we are not going to implement it, and we won't
let you do it, either") and a couple of cycles here and a few kbits
there doesn't really compute anymore.
many of the articles in wikipedia are demonstrably inferior to those in
<your favourite encyclopedia here> - still, the whole concept is so
immensely powerful that it has become my number one resource, while that
16-tome dead-tree-pulp monster from the early nineties is gathering dust
on my bookshelf.
to me, that same analogy holds for theora compared to <your favourite
codec here>. it's important to know the limitations (theora sure as hell
isn't going to replace blu-ray disks anytime soon), but for web, it
would work like a charm.