Comments on The Silent Number: Hey YouTube, we want Open Video too!

As a matter of a little rumor mixed with conjectur...

2010-02-02T00:42:46.183-05:00

As a matter of a little rumor mixed with conjecture,
Google may be buying the company that originated ogg
and then throwing some programmers at it to bring it
on par with H.264

Now if all that is true, it could save them 5 million
a year in licensing fees while at the same time
contributing vastly to the open source effort.

The differences in quality between the two codecs is nothing a little cash wouldn't cure.

OGGTV already works on Google Chrome with HTML5 fo...

2009-09-19T16:44:28.306-04:00

OGGTV already works on Google Chrome with HTML5 for mobile devices. BROGGCASTERS, can take advantage of this new video situation, by starting large amounts of open-TV stations, for all platforms and devices.

OGG, can easily be put in the driver's seat

This is a thread involving google people about thi...

2009-06-14T18:46:47.621-04:00

This is a thread involving google people about this subject:

http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-June/020363.html

Mayeb you should actually read the article you're ...

2009-06-14T18:02:43.999-04:00

Mayeb you should actually read the article you're referring to:

http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html

Theora is NOT ahead of h.264. The original article was flawed, and after it was corrected, it shows h.264 still comfortably in the lead.

It would be wise to fix that Theora is ahead of H2...

2009-06-14T16:55:42.336-04:00

It would be wise to fix that Theora is ahead of H264. That isn't the case. However, there are enough really good reasons for using Ogg Theora anyway.

Oh jezus don't start the Theora lovers and Theora ...

2009-06-14T16:48:37.526-04:00

Oh jezus don't start the Theora lovers and Theora haters at it!

> YouTube has their own HTML 5 demo site but it do...

2009-06-14T16:31:23.641-04:00

> YouTube has their own HTML 5 demo site but it does not (yet?) use Ogg, and since Theora is ahead of H.264 in objective quality, there really is no downside.

So I guess Slashdot isn't going to bother correcting their article? This is obviously not true if you know anything about the codecs and was already retracted on the comparison page.