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Old 8th May 2009, 07:57   #10  |  Link
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Originally Posted by benwaggoner View Post
But it's weird enough that I don't feel confident I understand why it is the way it is, which implies there must have been some magic encoder tweaks they were planning to implement. Superblocks with Hilbert patterns? Encoding bottom-up? They don't seem wrong exactly, but I just don't get why.
You're reading too much into it. Most of the things Theora does differently from mpeg are done solely for the purpose of being different, not to improve compression.
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