tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post2877976278021927298..comments2023-10-14T07:53:12.818-04:00Comments on Crazed Mule Productions: high quality h264 outputCacasodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05422708734815721628noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post-43732147971795628212009-05-12T10:07:00.000-04:002009-05-12T10:07:00.000-04:00I totally agree with you. From an end user perspe...I totally agree with you. From an end user perspective, the quality and compression of H.264 blows everything else out of the water. Also, almost all media players accept H.264 versus Theora. I've always chosen H over T simply because my friends aren't Linux hacks like me and I just want my videos to be viewed by the widest audience possible.<br /><br />Linuxtag looks very cool, though I am locking down expenses, too.Cacasodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05422708734815721628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post-55088488040000602412009-05-12T09:49:00.000-04:002009-05-12T09:49:00.000-04:00It may be pushed and even 'accepted' (thinking of ...It may be pushed and even 'accepted' (thinking of HTML 5 video tags) as the 'prime' video format but frankly it isn't. If some lawyers wanted to find some patented part of it, I have little doubt that given time and money they could.<br /><br />In any case, H.264 is the globally 'prime' video format. It's used for HD Digital Video Broadcast (television), for Internet media (Flash videos), for HD hard copy media (Blu Ray), for HD digital video recording (AVCHD cameras) and more. It seems to me like H.264 has already won.<br /><br />Theora is too little too late. Its current implementation is poor and its technical features, in terms of its specification, are quite outdated so even when the Thusnelda branch is improved to the point of being good, it will not be competitive.<br /><br />In fact, our 'resident' experts in the video compression field often say that MPEG-1 video may as well be promoted instead and may even be better because at least its patents have expired and so there is definitely no issue with it.<br /><br />Don't misunderstand us (not that I'm representative, merely proxying comments I've seen really), free, royalty-free, open standards are definitely welcome. Theora just seems to be a bad one. It seems destined to fail even before it was released. But, we'll see. :)<br /><br />I wanted to go to Linuxtag with FFmpeg, but I'm not sure I'll have the time/funds to attend that.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583216111417675035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post-50587394869023579922009-05-12T09:29:00.000-04:002009-05-12T09:29:00.000-04:00I poked around the schedule of talks and luckily, ...I poked around the schedule of talks and luckily, it doesn't seem like there are any Theora-specific talks. But as the prime open video standard, it may get ugly!<br />;)<br />I'll be there doing a real short Cinelerra demo.<br /><br />You have any interesting conferences coming up?Cacasodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05422708734815721628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post-71174154260245582872009-05-12T09:18:00.000-04:002009-05-12T09:18:00.000-04:00We FFmpeg developers were invited but I don't thin...We FFmpeg developers were invited but I don't think I have the time/funds to attend I'm afraid. I'm doing lots of other travelling this year. Maybe some of the others will be going. I hope flame wars about Theora (and how crap it is) don't burn the place down. ;)Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583216111417675035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post-25247181376948206362009-05-12T09:08:00.000-04:002009-05-12T09:08:00.000-04:00Thanks for the clarification, Robert. And thanks ...Thanks for the clarification, Robert. And thanks for the presets..they are really instrumental in simplifying the hornet's nest of libx264 parameters for the average user.<br /><br />You wouldn't happen to be going to the Open Video Conference in NYC on June 19/20, would you?<br /><A HREF="http://openvideoconference.org" REL="nofollow">http://openvideoconference.org</A>Cacasodohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05422708734815721628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17915976.post-79083715777326323922009-05-12T07:58:00.000-04:002009-05-12T07:58:00.000-04:00Hello, Robert Swain here. :) It's better to use th...Hello, Robert Swain here. :) It's better to use the preset files from either the 0.5 release or a current svn checkout of FFmpeg as the ones I hosted on my site were written before they were included in the FFmpeg code base.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583216111417675035noreply@blogger.com