[Theora] Alpha 5 to Beta 1

[Ralph Giles]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:31:00PM +0100, Thomas Kuglitsch wrote:

> I've just read on wiki.xiph.org, that the next release of Theoara will be Beta 
> 1. My Questions: 
> Can anyone estimate how much faster encoding will get?

At least a factor of three is possible. There's a branch in SVN with 
some asm optimization that's already quite a bit faster:

  http://svn.xiph.org/branches/theora-mmx/

You might give that a try.

 -r