Re: Why Our Civilization's Video Art and Culture is Threatened by the MPEG-LA
Basil Mohamed Gohar <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.theora.general |
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On 05/04/2010 09:46 AM, Tom Sparks wrote: > --- On Tue, 4/5/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i would really like to see a Dirac >> Pro camera. encoding to theora in the >> camera seams not the best choice for further editing. >> >> j >> > I second that :) > > tom > If the intention behind this is to address the concerns raised in the original OSNews article, the real target codec should be MJPEG, which is arguably the most "free" from patent threats. At acceptable bitrates, e.g., 25Mbps+, at HD resolutions, MJPEG with a good quality encoder does not look significantly worse than other, more modern codecs, and this is with a much lower CPU usage.