[theora] Dirac question

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Daniel Hendrycks <kondo8 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again, could someone tell me why there is links to Dirac on the Xiph
> wiki? The BBC takes care of Dirac, not Xiph? Is Xiph just a promoter?
> Secondly, how would one choose to save the video in a lossless format with
> Dirac, is there some interface (like a switch) in an application for this to
> be achieved?

Xiph.Org's purpose revolves around the availability of open and
unencumbered media formats. Xiph.Org is generally happy to use, adopt,
promote anything which furthers that mission even things not invented
in-house.

In order for a format to be useful a lot more is needed than just the
codec itself... Transport formats, tools, complementary codecs (e.g. a
video codec often needs a matching audio codec), so there can be a
role for Xiph.Org for that too.

I think to make Schroedinger lossless you want "rate-control=3".