Theora and quality and FOMS
Well, I think I did never mention how great FOMS is, did I? Nope, I wasn't there. But I'm subscribed to the FOMS mailing list, which is a very nice "place" with a lot of cool people trying to push...
View ArticleYet another recylced FOMS post on Theora
In my ongoing series of recycling semi-smart posts that'd otherwise bitrot in non-public archives, I hereby present my view on Theora's bitrate management. The question originally asked sorta boils...
View ArticleVideo in Firefox
As the work on finding a consensus on a baseline codec for HTML5 <video> is either stalled or at least not visibly (from the outside) moving along, browser vendors have the difficult task to...
View Articlejheora updates
As many of you know there's a Java applet ("Cortado") for playback of Ogg audio and video which originally was developed at Fluendo. Wikimedia is perhaps the best known "customer" of this applet and...
View ArticleMore jheora stuff
By now I patched Wikimedia's Cortado/jheora fork to play back any valid Theora bitstream with 4:2:0 subsampling. This is mostly a matter of properly consuming bits from the bitstream used for non-VP3...
View ArticleMore Cortado
(updated again to reflect recent changes)I have frequently been asked where to get that nice litte Ogg Theora/Vorbis streaming applet. Well, the version I'm working on used to be its source hosted in...
View Articleon the ffmpeg Vorbis encoder
Archive.org now has all moving images content also available as Ogg Vorbis + Theora. This is great!This was a massive reencoding effort and the details of what tools were used are available at...
View ArticleThusnelda article in c't
The Magazin für Computertechnik (c't) printed a 4-page long article about Thusnelda. Preparing the article and actually seeing it in stores was/is an awesome experience and I hope it helps making...
View ArticleSmall note on current Wikipedia article on Theora
The current state of the Wikipedia article on Theora states:Playback performance Currently, there is no mainstream hardware acceleration support for Theora. Consequently, playback performance,...
View ArticleH.264 isn't so bad, is it?
This is mostly a quick response to http://www.kenpardue.com/blog/2009/07/25/back-on-open-video/ which e.g. reads "What I don’t understand, and what irks me so badly, is why H.264 is demonized so badly...
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Cortado nostalgia
Yes, this is Cortado running on Netscape 4.79:Basically this means Cortado can be made run even on, uh, bad and slow Java virtual machines. No, the JVM included with Netscape isn't fast enough for...
View ArticleCortado 0.5.2
Cortado 0.5.2 is out. Changes since 0.5.1: make keepAspect ignorable againminor optimizations in the decoderbuffer tweaks to prevent unwanted frame dropscontents of plugins.ini moved into code to work...
View ArticleCortado 0.6.0
Cortado 0.6.0 is now released. Changes since 0.5.2: support for Theora files with 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 samplingReinforced compatibility with Java 1.1Improved support for videos with dropped framesMuch...
View ArticleTinkering with a H.261 encoder
On the rtcweb mailing list the struggle regarding what Mandatory To Implement (MTI) video codec should be chosen rages on. One camp favors H.264 ("We cannot have VP8"), the other VP8 ("We cannot have...
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