Up until a year ago, Theora was total dogshit, dramatically worse than H.263 (RealVideo, Flash 7, etc.) -- Xiph had made basically no effort at all to improve t

Up until a year ago, Theora was total dogshit, dramatically worse than H.263 (RealVideo, Flash 7, etc.) -- Xiph had made basically no effort at all to improve the codec itself, they just made a lot of fuss about integrating it with their custom container format, and froze the format in 2004 (Not that it really mattered -- there have never been other implementations). A year ago, the 'Thusnelda' development fork of the encoder was started, and made dramatic quality improvements -- the bleeding-edge library now achieves about the same level of mediocrity as H.263 -- welcome to the early 90s!