Apple Jumped the Shark

[David Gerard]

On 29 January 2010 13:40, Manish Sinha <manishsinha.tech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Difficult to digest. The use of H.264 is not because of above reasons IIRC
> but because H.264 is *said* to be superior than Theora and has hardware
> acceleration. But hey, come on - we can make Theora better.


The theoretical limit of quality for H.264 is better than the
theoretical limit of quality for Theora.

In practice, the current Theora encoder (Thusnelda) is as good as the
current H.264 encoders.


- d.