To the <a href="http://Xiph.org">Xiph.org</a> Developers:<br><br>Hi, one of the majors complains about the use of Theora, is that it has low quality, that is a fact that everyone knows...<br><br>Monty, in "the push for 1.0" demo said something like the encoder can be improved vastly... and theora-thusnelda was born :-)<br clear="all">
<br>But again... I don't see too much commits to the svn and it just appear like this is an experiment for testing purpose (well actually it is), and just that... I don't see real hard work for "the push for 1.0", its suppose that all the great work will go to the trunk.<br>
<br>I know this is a volunteer project, and that we can't really demand that Monty, Giles, Terriberry, or any one working for the project, spend time for make a real competitive Theora encoder, I really want to thanks Terriberry for make the full decoder implementation. But what is needed for make a shine Theora 1.0?<br>
<br>This is no a just do it complain... how can we help to make that happen? maybe if you do something like a fundraising for the cause would help? What is the stop factor that there is no persevering work?<br><br>Same goes for Vorbis, aoTuV released the beta5 more than a year ago... and in that time there were profs that have better quality than the reference encoder, everyone hope that 1.2.0 was going to merge with it, with the version bump and all, but there was a sad no. :-(<br>
<br>If we want that people use free formats, they need to stay competitive, they need to be alive. I'm stunned how LAME devs improves the quality of MP3, and I can't imagine the potential that Vorbis have if MP3 can be improved at this level knowing that is an old proprietary format. I really don't know why they don't work in Vorbis instead of MP3, but thats not the point.<br>
<br>This is my humble opinion... just to know what is stooping an straight forward in the development of the codecs.<br><br>cheers,<br>-- <br>Jorge Solórzano<br><a href="http://www.jorsol.com">http://www.jorsol.com</a>