Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process

Stefan Slivinski <sslivinski@lifesize.com> Fri, 22 November 2013 01:19 UTC

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David your point is absolutely correct.  H.261 would be completely unusable.  The max resolution is 352x288 not to mention many other algorithm  issues that make the quality even at low qp's unacceptable especially on a mobile device where the camera is anything but steady

The fact that h.261 is getting so much attention is distressing  


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From: David Singer [mailto:singer@apple.com]
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Proposed Video Selection Process


On Nov 21, 2013, at 13:58 , Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 November 2013 13:55, Basil Mohamed Gohar
> <basilgohar@librevideo.org> wrote:
>> It's no more crappy than having G.711 as a fallback audio codec for
>> legacy purposes,
> 
> Actually, it is.  G.711 is close to free to implement.  And, despite
> it actually being crappy, there's still a lot of it around.

well, it’s band-limited and hardly compressed, but within those limits it’s OK.  Whereas I seem to recall having trouble getting decent quality out of H.261 no matter what I did with it (but it has been *years* since I used H.261 for  anything, and it’s only because I am an old geezer that I used it at all).

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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