Mozilla hires Christopher Montgomery to work on the Daala codec

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


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  1.   Rla said

    Last night I had a dream, we all used free and free audio and video formats on all devices.

    1.    paul honorato said

      Last night I had a dream where we were all using a linux distro.

  2.   pandev92 said

    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.

  3.   heavymetalmixer said

    As far as I know the creators of Daala are not Mozilla, they are Xiph.

  4.   JoseH said

    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.