Why not Xvid? [was codec optimization]

[salsaman]

Ivan Krstić wrote:

>salsaman wrote:
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>>Yes, but surely the point is *why not use theora and vorbis*?
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>They're quite slow. Last I heard, Theora in particular was practically
>unusable on the machines, depending on a clip's frame rate and
>resolution. This is a known problem as Theora's notoriously unoptimized,
>but it's a real problem for us.
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Like I said in a previous mail, there is theora-mmx, which is several 
times faster than the standard libtheora. I never got a reply to my 
query whether the laptop supports mmx. If so, then has anybody tried it 
out yet ?

Cheers,
Gabriel.
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