Re: [rtcweb] Proposal for Theora baseline codec

[Basil Mohamed Gohar <[e-mail]>]

On 03/29/2012 10:34 AM, DRAGE, Keith (Keith) wrote:
>> VP8 is the only option that makes any sense for WebRTC going forward.
>> It is high performant, it has optimizations for realtime usage (in the
>> reference implementation), it is already implemented in a wide variety
>> of software (Skype, browsers [Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera]),
>> and it is also implemented in hardware (as well as supported by the
>> Android OS).
>>
> So are you saying that Adam's presentation today was incorrect?
>
> Quoting:
>
> "H.264:
>
> More deployed hardware acceleration
> Well known, clearly identified patent pool; royalties due for some uses
> Quality, compression ratio, and complexity approximately equal to VP8
>
> VP8:
>
> Can be hardware accelerated, but current deployment is very low
> No specific patents asserted1, no one collecting royalties
> Quality, compression ratio, and complexity approximately equal to
> H.264"
>
> If so I think you need to be a little more technically specific as to why you see one better than the other.
>
> Regards
>
> Keith
I'm not saying that.

What I am saying, and what I left out of that short list above, is that
VP8's royalty-free basis and patent grant from the only known owners of
patents on the technology, *in addition* to its technical suitability,
make it the only choice that makes any sense.

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