[theora] WebM killed Theora project?

Greg Ewing gregory.ewing at univie.ac.at
Sun Jun 6 07:37:31 PDT 2010


>> I think VP8 will always require more CPU power than Theora
>> How many times ?
>
> I'll let you know when I get it integrated into my mobile phone (S60)
> player. I'm struggling as it is to get enough performance out of theora
> (even with theorarm) :-(

Intra prediction hurts quite a bit IMO (compared to theora), because its 
much harder to pipeline/parallelise the code/hardware.

However I don't really know how much performance is gained with the 
fancy intra predictions. Perhaps its worth it.


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