Improved Ogg Theora coming soon to an Internet near you

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jan 7 14:35:48 UTC 2008


Hi


http://www.linux.com/feature/123869

"Monty says the Theora converter is "obsolete by 10 years," that he's 
now writing a "real encoder" for Theora, and that it will "be another 
couple of months until its mainline release." He also says a lot of the 
problems with the original Theora code and encoder aren't because 
they're buggy in the usual sense, but because the original codebase was 
"written by people who were self-taught," and that their lack of 
experience shows.

On the Windows and DirectShow front, Monty says Xiph lost one of its 
most talented Windows coders -- he went to work for Microsoft -- and 
that one of his dreams is to be able to hire volunteer Xiph coder 
Timothy Terriberry to work on the project full-time. (Monty himself 
works for Red Hat on free media software.)"

Rahul




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