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I love these articles by Monty for the technical insight they give me in to video compression, and I would love it if the end product from this work would resul
by gillianseed 12y ago
I love these articles by Monty for the technical insight they give me in to video compression, and I would love it if the end product from this work would result in a top-class codec which would atleast rival HEVC/VPX.
Realistically though I don't think this will lead to anything competitive at all, I really wish I am wrong but I just don't see it.
Just avoiding trampling on MPEGLA's huge patent chest would be a massive feat in itself, finding/developing compression techniques which aren't patented and capable of improving on the likes of HEVC while still be performant enough to be realistically usable strikes me as 'mission impossible'.
Again, would be so happy to be dead wrong.
- wmf 12y agoBTW this article is attributed to Jean-Marc Valin.
- gillianseed 12y agoAh thanks, missed that.
- ZeroGravitas 12y agoBoth Vorbis and Opus were somewhat miraculous in terms of scrappy outsiders beating the industry. This either points to the Xiph team being mad geniuses, or the audio codec field being somewhat warped by it's obsession with standardizing on design-by-committee, patent-driven corporate codecs. Either explanation gives Daala a fighting chance.