Please backport libtheora0 from Lucid. Huge video compression improvements!

[Leon Matthews]

The 1.1 release of the Theora video compression library arrived only just too late for Karmic's release, it would be fantastic to have it backported from Lucid.

The quality video from the 1.1 release of libtheora is on par with current h.264 encoders, while 1.0 is very blocky. Our company produces websites (all on Ubuntu, bar the graphic designers' Photoshop machines...) and are trying to move to the HTML5 VIDEO element for embedded video, rather than flash. Having a better theora encoder behind ffmpeg2theora would be a great help in that effort. :-)

See:
http://theora.org/news/#libtheora-1.1.0
http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo7.html

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

In bug #436726 comment (Fabio Pedretti wrote on 2009-09-29) I found libtheora0 packages for Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic" and 9.04 "Jaunty"

If someone want to test libtheora-1.1.0 a PPA is available here:

https://launchpad.net/~theora/+archive/ppa

I've notices decoding improvements in version 1.1.0 - in MSI D130 nettop with Intel Atom 330 CPU I get lots of freezes when I'm trying to watch "Big Buck Bunny" movie in HD quality (see http://ftp.akl.lt/Video/Big-Buck-Bunny-Peach/big_buck_bunny_1080p_stereo.ogg ), but when I updated libtheora to 1.1.0 (from https://launchpad.net/~theora/+archive/ppa ) then freezes almost gone in Ubuntu 9.04 :)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

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