Theora 1.1 (Thusnelda) Is Released 184
SD-Arcadia writes to tell us that Theora 1.1 has officially been released. It features improved encoding, providing better video quality for a given file size, a faster decoder, bitrate controls to help with streaming, and two-pass encoding. "The new rate control module hits its target much more accurately and obeys strict buffer constraints, including dropping frames if necessary. The latter is needed to enable live streaming without disconnecting users or pausing to buffer during sudden motion. Obeying these constraints can yield substantially worse quality than the 1.0 encoder, whose rate control did not obey any such constraints, and often landed only in the vague neighborhood of the desired rate target. The new --soft-target option can relax a few of these constraints, but the new two-pass rate control mode gives quality approaching full 'constant quality' mode with a predictable output size. This should be the preferred encoding method when not doing live streaming. Two-pass may also be used with finite buffer constraints, for non-live streaming." A detailed writeup on the new release has been posted at Mozilla.
Someone's gotta say it... (Score:4, Funny)
I hope that this version becomes widely used so that we can eventually read of the triumphs of Thusnelda.
(Oy vey, oy vey...)
Re:Someone's gotta say it... (Score:3, Funny)
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.
Re:No wonder Open Source doesn't catch on (Score:1, Funny)
Call me troll all you want, it's fucking true.
You don't see real commercial companies releasing products with nerdy names like fucking Theora, Thusnelda or "Ogg".
Jesus fucking christ... "Ogg"... that sounds like a fucking grunt from a fucking caveman.
Re:What every player is missing (Score:2, Funny)
And it's also a pain to transfer a "folder" of files to someone over the net. Torrents are the only remotely usable solution and that requires making a torrent, uploading it to a site, and then finding a user you want to give it to who also understands bittorrent...
Totally. Someone should get on this immediately. It would be totally cool to have a program which is able to string a number of files and their associated directories together, and just dump them into one file for ease of distribution! And then, on the other side of the internets, the recipient could use the same program to take all of that stuff from the file he received, and dump it back out, directories and all.
Re:What every player is missing (Score:3, Funny)
Anybody who uses Vorbis and h.264 together deserves to be smacked.