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The Xiph comparisons were made with x264 when possible. It would have been silly to use something different than Baseline profile as Theora cannot compete with
by aw3c2 17y ago
The Xiph comparisons were made with x264 when possible. It would have been silly to use something different than Baseline profile as Theora cannot compete with H264 on an advanced "HQ" level and no-one ever seriously said so. We are talking about web videos, something where Baseline is the main target.
- hackermom 17y agoJust for the reference: you actually don't need to use any "high profile" features of h.264 to have x264 outperform Theora. In fact, you don't even have to max out the baseline profile features.
- aw3c2 17y agoI did not say that Theora looks better or exactly as good as H264. I know how good H264 is. But for many uses the differences are marginally and do not justify using a non-free codec in my opinion. If you would make your own fair comparison (article/site), it would be much appreciated.
- ZeroGravitas 17y agoJust for further reference: you don't need to use any "high profile" features of H.264 for x264 to outperform most other H.264 implementations (Adobe's, Apple's etc.) when they are using all the high profile features available to them. I find it weird to use a GPL encoder that's had a lot of optimisation work done on it, to undermine an open format where the encoder hasn't had a lot of work done on it. If the format is the key rather than the implementation, then why are so many of them mediocre?