<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Thomas Daede <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daede003@umn.edu" target="_blank">daede003@umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
> It would also be nice to hear some commentary on how this will impact<br>
> adoption. Will hardware decoding of Daala will be competitive with<br>
> dedicated h.264/5 decoders? What about on mobile platforms? Will shimming<br>
> support for Daala using JS/WebGL be a realistic option?<br>
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</span>Both hardware and software decoding of Daala is meant to be practical<br>
across a variety of devices, including mobile chipsets. </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Daala is feasable with a JS shim, however we would much prefer to be<br>
natively implemented in devices and browsers. You can see an example of<br>
this being done for other free codecs here: <a href="https://github.com/brion/ogv.js" target="_blank">https://github.com/brion/ogv.js</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">My understanding is that VP9 just wasn't suited for decoding using JS. The demo Daala decoder offered performance similar to that of Route9.js, but it is apparently still not optimized. Is it inherently easier to decode Daala using JS/WebGL? Do you think it will be good enough to make a material impact on cross compatibility efforts?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, the Q/A section of every talk I've seen includes someone asking about hardware implementations. The response has generally been something along the lines of "We are cognizant of the need for hardware implementations, we are too busy to build one ourselves." – but this doesn't answer more practical questions.</div><div><br></div><div>For example, how much do you think it will cost to add Daala support? My understanding was that since VP8/9 is very similar to h.264/5 it is very cheap to add support.</div></div>