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How good is the video compression in vp3.2? For example, how does it compare (bit rate & quality) to mpeg1, mpeg2, Divx, real Video 8+, Windows Media, etc. etc. It being open source is nice and all, but if it can't be reasonably competitive then there isn't much point to it. I just haven't seen anything that compares vp32 to anything else. (Although to be honest, I haven't

Hullo, When people ask me what Vorbis's license terms are, I usually tell them that the bitstream format is in the public domain, that the reference libraries are licensed under a BSD-like license, and that the example programs are licensed under the GNU GPL. (Note the distinction between filespec and implementation here.) Meanwhile, Theora.org's FAQ doesn't say anything about the

Hello Theora developers, I'm doing some cursory research into Theora's IP status in preparation for asking Apple to reconsider the possibility of shipping an implementation. I have a few questions and I'm hoping knowledgeable people can help out. 1) What are the terms of any patent licenses or disclaimers, and do they have field of use restrictions or limitations on code for

Whatever became of Ogg Theora? There seems to be still almost no news from Xiph or its developers regarding Ogg Theora. None at all since Mid-December, when the release of Alpha 2 was pushed back to a month ago... No news on plans for the second Alpha? No news of development "roadmaps"? No news on current developments or challenges that are stalling development? No CVS updates

Hello, I was discussing on the mplayer/mencoder ML about transcodingfrom Divx to Theora. I got these kind of answers: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mencoder.user/280 Of course I understoud only 50% of what he said, as well as I am not really used with codec and video glossary... But I generally understoud his opinion. What to think? I would like not to believe him, espacially when

Derf's from-scratch alternate implementation of the theora codec is now publicly available from our subversion repository. http://svn.xiph.org/experimental/derf/theora-exp/ This exciting new codebase promises superiour performance, and the encoder is capable of higher quality output than the current represenation, taking advantage of the bitstream extension we've added to the

Hello, I took the liberty of quickly slamming together http://www.theora.org/benefits/ . This is supposed to answer the "why should you use Theora" question in some detail. This section is not yet included in the navigation bar and I'd like to get confirmation that this information can be considered "canon" before making it "visible" (oh, and of course someone

I try to merge VP3's mmx decoder into theora. http://kyoto.cool.ne.jp/vp3/developers/theora-alpha3-MMXd-src.zip You can see the change by searching the keyword "_UsingMMX_" in all lib folder's file. From VP3???YO vp3@go8.enjoy.ne.jp

As I understand it the current plan is to make it possible to losslessly transcode VP3 video to Theora video. In my experience, one of the "features" of VP3 is it drops frames in the event that there is little/no movement in a frame, or if "drop frames" is enabled, to drop frames if the data rate is getting too high. I understand that the way that VP3 does this in

One thing I have noticed when encoding VCDs is that often videos with complex backgrounds don't compress nearly as well as those with simple ones. Part of the problem is that TV cameras seam to have the focus so that the entire image is clear rather than focusing on the foreground (and blurring the backgrounds). The result is that a good number of bits are wasted trying to perfectly

Ok, we got it working with 176x144 resolution. The following string produced an image that was not falling behind too much for too long - basically a little when it was getting TONS of movement, and then catching up fast. "65 58 110 0 1 1 90 8 120 1 1 " Now, we need to get this working on a 320x240 resolution, too (as sadly VP3 does not support 160x120. Seems to be a little senseless,

Hello everybody, I hope to finish this MIME types discussion with these conclusions - it's taken enough bandwidth on these lists :). So here's a generic MIME types scheme that we all seem to be able to agree on and all that is needed for the moment. --- 1) Ogg encapsulated files: Any data that is encapsulated in an Ogg container will us the MIME type: application/ogg (as already

Hello everybody, I hope to finish this MIME types discussion with these conclusions - it's taken enough bandwidth on these lists :). So here's a generic MIME types scheme that we all seem to be able to agree on and all that is needed for the moment. --- 1) Ogg encapsulated files: Any data that is encapsulated in an Ogg container will us the MIME type: application/ogg (as already

Hello everybody, I hope to finish this MIME types discussion with these conclusions - it's taken enough bandwidth on these lists :). So here's a generic MIME types scheme that we all seem to be able to agree on and all that is needed for the moment. --- 1) Ogg encapsulated files: Any data that is encapsulated in an Ogg container will us the MIME type: application/ogg (as already

I don't know how to change a video quality on the fly - I want to provide a slider with a preview window, so user could see the result immediately in this window. I tried to send ICM_COMPRESS_FRAMES_INFO to encoder or calling ICSetState() - with no success however. Am I doing something wrong ? How can I set 'lDataRate', 'dwRate', 'dwScale' parameters ? I tried every

Hi everyone, I just landed into the theora planet, as a game programmer, I searched for a free video fomat/codec and the theora choice became obvious. However I experienced rather bad performance (at least from a game programming point of view) After a couple a profiling, I discovered, as previous discused in a post found via Google, that the bottleneck is in the ogg library. An unsane part of the

Hi, I'm developing ffdshow and ffvfw codecs for Windows. You can read more about them at http://cutka.szm.sk and http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow. Stéphane Bérubé asked me recently if I could implement Theora support. I knew about first Theora release, downloaded its sources and tested it. I liked the results add decided to support it. I implemented encoding functionality into ffvfw,

Hi List, Just batting a few ideas around here, but would it be possible to include in to the codec, estimation for common video artifacts that occur in the analogue world? For example, anything that's gone through a composite stage will likely have dot-crawl and false colour - if we can recognise this effect in the encoder, we can treat it as a special case. Other artifacts that come to

I think I'll start with the simple stuff, just to be safe. :-) Here are some cvsignore updates, and a fix for the inter-project dependencies in the MSVC *.dsw file. Cheers, Eric -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: vp32-cvs-ignore-patch.diff Type: application/octet-stream Size: 1524 bytes Desc: vp32-cvs-ignore-patch.diff Url :

Hi, So it took a little while to get here but VP3 through ffmpeg is finally starting to achieve viewable results. It partially works right now. Keyframes only. And monochrome. Oh, and the picture is upside down (something I did not realize about VP3 until I let it fly just now). Anyway, here is a picture of ffmpeg's VP3 decoder in action using xine: