I'm really excited about Daala, in ways that VP8 and VP9 never excited me—VP8 seemed like a damaged version of MPEG4. Although it looks like MPEG4 will be "goo

I'm really excited about Daala, in ways that VP8 and VP9 never excited me—VP8 seemed like a damaged version of MPEG4. Although it looks like MPEG4 will be "good enough" for the web for a long time to come, it seems like HEVC development is weighed down by some perverse incentives. See this post from "Diary Of An x264 Developer" in 2010: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/360 http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/360 Meanwhile, Opus came along and outperformed HE-AAC, which makes me think that more good things are going to come from open standards.