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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by noir_lord on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @04:54AM (#6590534)
That's exactly what it is and while all these teams spend time inventing technology that is 98% the same as the existing stuff the people with the technology that is 100% the same as the existing stuff (often proprietary) laugh all the way to the bank.

It's 2013, there are dozens of codecs, many open enough to be used, just flaming pick one.

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by vitno on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:01AM (#6590555)
I'm not sure you realize how different Daala is from any other video codec in usage. It's ALSO royalty-free with a permissive FOSS license. It will also ideally be significantly better than anything else on the market.
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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by cromwellian on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:29AM (#6590646)
It also won't arrive optimistically until almost 2016, effectively making it dead in the water if H265 gets rolled out in every smartphone, or if WebM is everywhere.

There are lots of promising codecs that were proposed to be different. Wavelets used to get lots of hype too. It's a very risky bet to just punt for 3+ years on the hope that promising research will pan out into something viable.

Research projects shouldn't delay moving forward on stuff that's ready now.

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Re:Ogg founder moves to Mozilla to work on new video codec by pcwalton on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @11:30AM (#6592545)
> Research projects shouldn't delay moving forward on stuff that's ready now.

Mozilla supports WebM.

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