For some time the Mozilla Foundation is working on a new free video codec to face the H264 replacement, H265. His name is Daala.
Via ubunlog I find out that Mozilla has hired Christopher Montgomery (previously worked for Red Hat), creator of theory, vorbis y OGG to work on this new video codec.
His signing is not strange since Christopher has been working on free codecs through the foundation for more than 10 years. xiph, and his intention is that Daala is ready to 2015 late, therefore, we will have to wait to see if it will overcome H265, unless you do not want to wait and go downloading and compiling the codec and the player to test it. For the latter you just have to open a terminal and write:
git clone https://git.xiph.org/daala.git
And to keep updating you just have to go to the folder where the source code is and execute:
git pull
From here I want to give my support to the project and I hope that the codec is even ready beforehand to be able to enjoy it (or at least that soon it includes some way to convert a video via ffmepg I gstreamer).
Project page
Via Ubunlog
Last night I had a dream, we all used free and free audio and video formats on all devices.
Last night I had a dream where we were all using a linux distro.
It is of little use, if they say that even vp9 doesn't come close to h265 in terms of compression / quality. It's a losing battle as long as the industry continues to embrace these formats.
There are still 2 years to go before it is ready, unless it is advanced / delayed, so I would wait to see.
And if the industry adopts them it is mainly for one thing, H264 and its successor have DRM protection, while the free ones, such as Theora or OGG (I don't know if VP8 / 9 has this type of protection) no (in fact when it started draft HTML5 Nokia said OGG should not be adopted for that reason)
Now while the codec won't have it, no one is stopping them from creating a video / audio container that does have it, as much as the fuck
Not only that, but any h264 video is superior to the best encoded vp8, and this I have been able to buy several times and with several tests. vp8 doesn't have much higher quality than a divx.
I have noticed that when working with Adobe Premier. In itself, the H.264 is more practical than the awkward AVI.
As far as I know the creators of Daala are not Mozilla, they are Xiph.
Hello, this dreaming is very nice but it is much better to make that dream come true. I live now in my dream. Which was to give support and popularity to Vorbis. Android supports Vorbis and the new music players or «Reprod. MP3 'does too. Times go by and now I dream again, in this dream we all appreciate and use free software. I fight to make it come true and one day I will live in that dream.