[daala] Dumb questions from a fan

[Thomas Daede]

On 04/03/2015 12:45 PM, Zach Lym wrote:
> A recent talk mentioned some areas for greater parallelization and better
> use of generic graphics hardware.  It would be nice if you made a broader
> comparison between h.264/5 and Daala.  For example, you could have a block
> diagram of the decoding steps for each and highlight where Daala can be
> parallelized.

This is certainly not the first request for a nice high-level picture of
the Daala encoder and decoder. I'll see if I can draw an up to date one
and add it to the wiki.

> It would also be nice to hear some commentary on how this will impact
> adoption.  Will hardware decoding of Daala will be competitive with
> dedicated h.264/5 decoders?  What about on mobile platforms?  Will shimming
> support for Daala using JS/WebGL be a realistic option?

Both hardware and software decoding of Daala is meant to be practical
across a variety of devices, including mobile chipsets.

Daala is feasable with a JS shim, however we would much prefer to be
natively implemented in devices and browsers. You can see an example of
this being done for other free codecs here: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js