Linked by Rahul on Fri 8th May 2009 09:07 UTC
Chris Montgomery, otherwise known as Monty, is the founder of Xiph.org foundation and creator of the Ogg container format. He has been sponsored by Red Hat for several years to improve the codec quality of Theora and the next generation version, called Thusnelda, is already proving to be better than H264 as bitrate increases. Monty has posted some test results demonstrating the improvements. Chris Blizzard from Mozilla Foundation has some updates as well.
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The German news site heise reports that there has been an error during measuring h.264 and therefore its result were worse than expected. Apparently h.264 still produces better images than Theora but the difference between the two codecs is now far less visible.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Freier-Videocodec-Ogg-Theora-ist-H-2... (German)
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2009-May/069239.ht...