Theora pulling ahead of H264

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 05:17:54AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> http://www.osnews.com/story/21451/Theora_Pulling_Ahead_of_H264
> 
> "Chris Montgomery, otherwise known as Monty, is the founder of Xiph.org
> foundation and creator of the Ogg container format. He has been
> sponsored by Red Hat for several years to improve the codec quality of
> Theora and the next generation version, called Thusnelda, is already
> proving to be better than H264 as bitrate increases. Monty has posted
> some test results demonstrating the improvements. Chris Blizzard from
> Mozilla Foundation has some updates as well."

I think that all Monty states is that Thusnelda is improving, and
closing the gap to x264, before other subjective tuning measures are
applied.  I infer from his statements that he believes Thusnelda will
at some point be as good or better than x264, but it hasn't happened
yet according to his page:
http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html

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