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Comment Re:The specific encoder matters too (Score 1) 325

by icknay on Monday June 22, 2009 @05:44PM (#28429563) Attached to: Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4

Hey Monty -- when Thusnelda has made its next step up -- Adaptive Quant and what have you -- I'd be happy to do a followup article + I'm interested to get tips to make sure I'm using the right flags. My instinct is that high output quality and minimizing bandwidth are the most important things, and encoding CPU use is less so, but I should at least be clear that the low-cpu niche is one some care about.

Submission + - Concrete Comparisons of Theora vs. Mpeg-4 (stanford.edu)

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on Monday June 22, 2009 @01:29PM

icknay writes: "With the upcoming Firefox 3.5 and HTML5 video, there's natural interest in Theora vs. Mpeg-4, but without much evidence either way. Here's clips encoded at various rates to provide concrete comparison between Theora and Mpeg-4. Theora performs decently, but requires more bandwidth than Mpeg-4 (although this is an 1.1alpha release of Theora and Theora has a much better license than Mpeg-4). The quality comparisons are very subjective, but you can try the clips yourself and see how it breaks down. There was an earlier discussion about this but which lacked much concrete evidence. (disclosure: it's my page)"

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