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Theora DID not produce quality comparable to H.264

Theora DID not produce quality comparable to H.264

Posted Jan 27, 2010 0:30 UTC (Wed) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141)
In reply to: Theora DID not produce quality comparable to H.264 by rickmoen
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

No, the test was done with 1.1 alpha current from that date. 1.1 is indeed much improved over 1.0, but the alpha already carried all the quality improvements. See also

http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=102

which clearly shows how far 1.1 improves over 1.0 and also how it fares compared to other codecs.


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