[rtcweb] Fundamental asymmetry [was Re: New VP8 vs H.264 tests uploaded]

[Marc Petit-Huguenin <[e-mail]>]

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On 04/04/2013 08:23 AM, Adam Roach wrote:
> On 4/4/13 10:08, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>> And if so, would they care what anyone's tests other than their own
>> showed?
> 
> I for one, applaud the approach of publishing the exact tools and options
> used for encoding. Without that kind of transparency, it becomes very
> difficult to trust purported output. It's a "many eyes" approach to finding
> flaws with the comparisons thet goes a long way towards preventing claims
> of tester bias.
> 
> I do find it a bit odd that, although we've had proponents of both
> solutions show what they purport to be output of the codecs, the only
> "don't take my word for it, replicate my results at home on your own
> machine" transparency I've seen has been from the VP8 camp.
> 

That shows that there is a fundamental asymmetry between the VP8 camp and the
H.264.  It is nice to see technical comparisons like this one - and more of
them are needed - but a more important discussion, in my opinion, should be
about the fact that the VP8 camp is fundamentally about inclusiveness and the
H.264 camp about exclusiveness.  Cullen's comment in the meeting about the
fact that there is only 4 browsers and that they all but Mozilla have a fully
paid license for H.264 is symptomatic of the blindness of the H.264 camp to
the need of the RTCWeb/Webrtc community at large.  OTOH, the VP8 camp
consistently demonstrated, as with the OP email, willingness to work with the
community and make RTCWeb/Webrtc available and affordable to the whole
spectrum of participants.

As an independent developer, I do not need to look at the results of the tests
to choose my camp.

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