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Theora does not produce quality comparable to H.264

Theora does not produce quality comparable to H.264

Posted Jan 27, 2010 3:48 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Theora does not produce quality comparable to H.264 by DonDiego
Parent article: Blizzard: HTML5 video and H.264 - what history tells us and why we're standing with the web

Note that H.264 decoders are also being improved. Much more work is being dedicated to H.264

E.g. the BBC apparently have been able to reduce the bitrate of their High-Def H.264 broadcasts by 16% without loss of quality, thanks to newer, better encoding technology.


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