Concrete Comparisons of Theora Vs. Mpeg-4 325
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 a 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 it lacked much concrete evidence. (Disclosure: it's my page.)"
My results (Score:5, Funny)
Both make terrible concrete. I recommend you buy some mix at the hardware store instead.
Disclosure (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Theora sucks a nut (Score:2, Funny)
If you copy and paste it into a text editor, you'll discover that there's actually a collision between a space and an anti-space there. (That's sort of like anti-matter, but more digital.)
Re:Surprised? Don't be, it's open source. (Score:2, Funny)
Strike two. Popularity != Quality. McDonalds has sold billions of hamburgers, but I don't ever see them on a list of best burgers.
The proof is in the pudding folks, go to any open source developer meeting and most people will be using Macs with OS X, and if they are web developers they will be using Safari, Flash and Mpeg4, not Linux, Theora or any other substandard, second rate "open source" tools or libraries.
You go far to prove your own point there don't you.
Re:Surprised? Don't be, it's open source. (Score:1, Funny)
Obviously you've never used Oracle.