Why not Xvid? [was codec optimization]

[Samuel Klein]

http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/2007-February/003191.html
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2006-October/001251.html

Chih-Chung has been doing some testing, and is interested in this
optimization question.  We should get real benchmarks.  Depending on network
capacity, moderate frame rates and resolutions may not be such a terrible
thing for large streamed media files.

SJ

On 3/1/07, Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>
> salsaman wrote:
> > Yes, but surely the point is *why not use theora and vorbis*?
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D
> _______________________________________________
> Devel mailing list
> Devel at laptop.org
> http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20070301/b0de9ea3/attachment.html>