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sp332 on Dec 16, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: BPG Image Comparison

Those are audio codecs, not video codecs. Xiph worked on Theora for 7 years and never got close to H.264, and Daala is promising but HEVC is amazing right now.

nitrogen on Dec 16, 2014 [–]

Theora and Daala are both hamstrung by working around minefields of patents on essential processes to video processing.

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