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The author really nails the ridiculous nature of the VP8 claims in this article. The same article could be applied to the Theora vs H.264 tests - all performed
by hackermom 16y ago
The author really nails the ridiculous nature of the VP8 claims in this article. The same article could be applied to the Theora vs H.264 tests - all performed with completely suboptimal procedures and tools on the H.264 side.
- cookiecaper 16y agoThe author's only claims about the claims made by On2 seem to be that the tech is still closeted so there's no way to verify On2's claims. That doesn't sound like they used "suboptimal procedures" to me -- there's no accusation of that, merely a desire to see something so that meaningful independent evaluation can be performed.
- hackermom 16y agoOh, that wasn't what I implied. If you had read all of what I wrote you would've seen that I referred to the THEORA vs H.264 tests being performed suboptimally for H.264.
- cookiecaper 16y agoI did read all of what you wrote. It's like two sentences. I know that you mentioned Theora, but you imply that the same case is applicable with VP8. You said "The same article could be applied to the Theora v. H264 tests...", i.e., Theora and VP8 both demonstrate an advantage due to unfair testing and not real-world improvements. Nobody knows that because nobody has been able to test VP8 independently thus far. Your post implies that the author claimed the test results were not representative of the codec's true performance. The author made no such implication; he only noted that there is no unbiased verification or corroboration of those results.