Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec

Re:Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec by shmerl on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:13AM (#10046133)

Is Thor based on similar principles to Daala (i.e. like lapped transforms) to make it useful for merging?

And unrelated question, what will be the name of the merged codec? I hope it won't remain as NetVC, as that name is awful.

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Re:Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec by 0x09 on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @04:58AM (#10046813)

According to the spec, Thor is a more traditional block-based codec with quadtree subdivisions in the vein of H.264 and forward.

Beyond that the design is rather conservative and different from Daala's "start over from scratch" methodology. It doesn't look like the two would be poised to merge directly a-la Opus at this point, but rather to be mutual test beds and borrow and exchange unencumbered ideas that work well.

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Re:Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec by shmerl on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @01:39PM (#10049291)

I see, thanks.

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