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Either way, having another effort competing to make a great format is not a problem. Here's hoping it goes well!
So... this is a separate project from Daala which Cisco also works on. Is there a story here?
So... this is a separate project from Daala which Cisco also works on. Is there a story here?
We'll see what comes out of it!
I am sure that some entity holds a broad enough patent that all your bases will belong to a Texas court.
They don't even need to be able to win. An existing "legit" patent holder might choose to simply throw lawyers at as a tactic to delay or defeat a potential competitor. In that case, it comes down to a cost/benefit analysis for the would-be litigator.
I am sure that some entity holds a broad enough patent that all your bases will belong to a Texas court.
This seems like fantastic news after the HEVC patent disaster. Has anyone tested this or has more information on the performance/quality vs other codecs?
Summary is that Thor is performing at a slightly better level than Daala and worse than VP9 or H265. But it's also missing a lot of features right now, and the encoder is only tuned for PSNR.
Actually, I'm still rooting for Daala (from Xiph.org, the same folks that did so well with Opus). It's still a long ways away from being finished, but their work is awesome and I've been following it for a while now! Either way, having another effort competing to make a great format is not a problem. Here's hoping it goes well!
Didn't we already go through this with VP8/VP9/WebM?
NETVC participation is open to anyone though, so it is possible more players will show up.