vkem
12th June 2003, 14:20
Theora.org says:
"The libtheora reference implementation has reached its 'alpha 2' milestone. A lot of bugs have been fixed and new features added, including all the planned changes to the bitsteams format.
This is more of an internal milestone than a public release, but we are making a source tarball available for convenience. Nevertheless we recommend using the cvs version if possible. This release also requires cvs libogg and libvorbis to compile; you might try the cvs nightly tarball if you don't already have these checked out. You will need to build and install the 'ogg' and 'vorbis' modules."
Afterdawn.com comments it that way:
"Compared to the previous alpha 1, this milestone fixes virtually all bugs found in previous versions and includes various new features. Xiph.org that controls the Theora project, seems to have dropped the development of their other video codec, a wavelet-based Ogg Tarkin, in order to concentrate their efforts to Theora. This is kinda pity, since Theora is based on rather old VP3 codec from On2 and can't really compete with widespread MPEG-4 -based codecs, such as XviD and DivX."
"The libtheora reference implementation has reached its 'alpha 2' milestone. A lot of bugs have been fixed and new features added, including all the planned changes to the bitsteams format.
This is more of an internal milestone than a public release, but we are making a source tarball available for convenience. Nevertheless we recommend using the cvs version if possible. This release also requires cvs libogg and libvorbis to compile; you might try the cvs nightly tarball if you don't already have these checked out. You will need to build and install the 'ogg' and 'vorbis' modules."
Afterdawn.com comments it that way:
"Compared to the previous alpha 1, this milestone fixes virtually all bugs found in previous versions and includes various new features. Xiph.org that controls the Theora project, seems to have dropped the development of their other video codec, a wavelet-based Ogg Tarkin, in order to concentrate their efforts to Theora. This is kinda pity, since Theora is based on rather old VP3 codec from On2 and can't really compete with widespread MPEG-4 -based codecs, such as XviD and DivX."