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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

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

How does the Theora project differ from Nullsofts NSV project? Other than the obvious fact they use mp3.... <p><p>--- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'theora-request@xiph.org' containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body. No subject is

a couple points before I look at this too hard: "For VP3, since you can't do a constant quality encode" what? that should not be the case. Could be a QT-specific bug. Theora at any rate is certainly capable of doing constant-quality encode. This probably explains your standard deviation complaint -- VP3 is running a rate control alg, where the other codecs are just shooting for

I hope this list is small enough for not beeing banned when introducing oneself. So... Hi, I just subscribed to the theora-lists. I'm from the XVID project, so I know a deal about video and MPEG-4 in particular, but nothing about Vorbis/Theora etc., That's why I'm here, because I'm interested in patent-free alternatives. I guess there is no documentation of the current status

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, 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

Hello everyone, I'm developing software for a marketing company which creates multimedia presentations. We're currently using proprietary Windows software, but are looking for a royalty-free cross-platform solution. It's important that the solution is royalty- and patent-free because the presentations are copied and given out in large quantities for free (as in beer ;-) We are

Hi all, It's been a few years since I encoded a number of movies using the VP3 codec (v3.2) on my Quicksilver PPC. Now I have a new Intel mac and I'd like to play them. However, it seems that the codec offered on On2's website is only for the PPC architecture. Does anyone know a workaround or some other codec that works on the MacIntel platform? I'm using Quicktime Pro 7.

Hi, I have been working with VP3 for some time now. Dan Miller from On2 just told me about this list. A few months ago, I managed to get On2's VP3 source snapshot to compile under Linux, a feat that many have apparently attempted and quickly abandoned. I compiled a small console app and the results of the experiment are explained here:

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 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

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

Hi, Since a number of people are eager to try out the native VP3 decoder in xine, I have made a patch available, bz2-compressed: http://www.pcisys.net/~melanson/codecs/xine-vp3-decoder-patch.bz2 To work with this patch: 1) Get the latest xine-lib from CVS. Visit this page for more details: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=9655 The module name is xine-lib, but you will also need

--- "Daniel B. Miller" wrote: It looks to me like patch is trying to put each .cvsignore in the vp32 directory rather than the specified subdirectories such as Codecs/quicktime/. It seems like I need some option to get patch to use the 'Index:' commands. I looked at the man page, it goes on about how patch tries to derive the filenames, but I am still confused. Any help would

I tried it out on the Vp32 site - nothing in there. Says something of not matching the current tag. Nice. Theora's website does not have a web surface. Thomas Tomiczek THONA Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET) --- >8 ---- List archives: http://www.xiph.org/archives/ Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/ To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to

can anyone confirm that, unlike VP3, Theora in fact decodes images right-side-up? (VP3 managed to turn everything upside down on encode and reverse it on decode) The tests I'm doing indicate that Theora doesn't reverse the image -- the first coefficients encoded correspond to the upper-left corner of the frame. ___ Dan Miller (++,) Founder, On2 Technologies --- >8 ---- List

Yes, the Theora codec is based on VP3, which is an earlier version of ON2's VP6 codec. Theora is currently at its alpha 3 release, and is stable enough to have been used already for streaming live video from a number of conferences, and for encoding several videos that can be found at www.theora.org. Development has progressed to the point that the value of the codec can be seen. That