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This just makes me wonder where the hell the reference implementation of Dalaa is already.

Honestly who cares ? Without Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and Sony on board (all are in MPEG-LA and will adopt H.265) it is dead on arrival.

If Daala is significantly better in CPU efficiency, compression ratio, and/or perceived quality, then it will be used.

it won't. video is all about hardware codecs now and it's even worse in mobile - the codec has to be in the SoC or it doesn't get used full stop.

>Without Sun, HP, Digital and Microsoft on board Linux is dead on arrival.

I think the main reason H.264 is so popular is because of the absolutely fantastic x264 encoder. If anybody delivers something radically better (Daala promises to do) it will gain traction. See Opus. I listen only to podcasts by very technical people, and Opus took them in a storm, even without the MPEG LA.

https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git

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