Hello, My name is Robin Marín and I have some questions about the Theora Codec/project...<br><br>First of all I don't know if this is the right place to ask but I haven't found any Xiph/Theora forum or something similar...<br>
I don't even know if this is the right way of "posting" in mailists... But anyway...<br><br>I discovered Theora just like a moth ago when the 1st alpha of Thusnelda came out... Even when just a month ago I found about it,<br>
I did a lot of reading and searching to know more about the concept, goals and some basic internal working of Theora.<br><br>Of course, I did a lot of testing with the 1st Thusnelda alpha of ffmpeg2theora and results are very good! I'm very pleased with results.<br>
Compression, quality, ease of use and stability are really great even when there's a good amount of new code since Theora 1.0 version (for what i've read).<br>Congratulations to the devs!<br><br>Even so, In most cases I can still get better quality with Codecs like Xvid using a Two-Pass setup... So here's the first row of questions:<br>
<br>*- Is it possible to support a "Two-Pass" or even "multipass" feature in Theora?<br><br>*- Is there any plan to support that or a similar feature in Theora?<br><br>... And just to clarify, I'm not asking for timeframes, just if it's possible... if it's in the plans... of is there's a similar feature on the "roadmap" :)<br>
<br>Ok, and the other questions relates to the future of Theora against modern codecs like the frequently mentioned h264 stuff...<br>And please, don't get me wrong, I'm just wondering if there are plans to support more advanced features even if that supposes<br>
rising the CPU load or stuff like that... Concretely my questions are:<br><br>- knowing that your "goal" with Theora is/was (?) to achieve similar quality than MPEG-4 Part-2/ASP (?) -<br><br>*- Do you plan to implement more advanced features comparable with MPEG-4 Part-10/AVC? (h264)<br>
<br>And more than that...<br><br>*- Can you implement such comparable features in current Theora/Thusnelda or that would require a whole new direction?<br><br>Please notice I wrote "comparable"... not the same. I understand Theora is a different implementation.<br>
<br>The last question is the most important for me... I'm very curious about that.<br><br>Thanks<br>tuqueque.<br>