Hello... thanks a lot for your feedback!<br><br>That's what I love about real open source, the friendly, honest and direct feedback you get from devs!<br><br>Monty: > "For general codec discussions, there are already other good places to go to, eg, HydrogenAudio for audio and doom9 for video."<br>
<br>.- Yes, I now frequently visit Doom9's forum, that's where I found about Theora and is an awesome source of information and feedback... though sometimes really biased towards h.264, but in my tests Theora (Thusnelda) stands incredibly well, so don't worry, I don't get influenced by biased comments.<br>
<br>Gregory: > "You can achieve the same (or better) effect as a two pass encode by encoding with the quality knob and iteratively adjusting it until you get the desired total size."<br><br>.- Hey, thanks a lot! I didn't know that!... I'll do some testing with the quality settings and see how it works but is great to know your opinions about 2-pass stuff... It would certainly be a nice implementation to get better results without too much hassle for the user.<br>
<br>Monty: > "...right now, xvid is still a better codec (not surprising, Thusnelda is not finished. There's still a major piece of infrastructure missing in the encoder)."<br><br>.- Good to know!... So far I'm very pleased with Thusnelda, and with the lastest Project Update [290507] I'm impatient to see another Alpha out :)<br>
<br>Monty: > "We will keep up for a period. On paper, MPEG part 2 and part 10 are considerably more advanced codecs. However, a codec's quality performance is only as good as the encoder, and we've got alot of room for improvement yet (as does MPEG of course). Eventually, MPEG4 will surpass Theora for good..."<br>
<br>.- And that's what I call UNbiased feedback :)<br><br>Gregory: > "Buzzwords are marketing. We could use some better marketing for Theora".<br><br>Wise words!... Again, that's what I love about real open source!<br>
<br>Monty: If not in Theora than in a successor. The only disagreement within the org is which of those two paths to take. I'd like to modestly extend Theora, and Time would like to start fresh.<br><br>.- Thanks for the clear answer!... I think is matter of seeing how things evolve :)<br>
<br>Gregory: > "Theora does half-pel. I'd confused the two. Scratch that one. ;)"<br><br>Scratched ;)... though now you mention it, is it possible to have quarter-pixel in Thusnelda? (just out of curiosity).<br>
<br>And again, thanks a lot for the feedback!<br>