> However, I was merely a contractor, and not making the business decisions. I worked with multiple contractors that thought similar things to yourself
Do you know you're not talking to some contractor, you're talking to the guy behind x264?
If you don't know him, read his analysis of VP8 (note copyright footer):
Having been in the streaming industry since the mid 90's, with heavy work in live and on demand encoding, I've seen dozens of these companies make similar claims, usually in pursuit of investment dollars. For years running, regardless of open source versus closed source, none stack up well against x264 when measured for the way people see video and for the resources taken to produce the encoded content.
You really don't have to read past the first graph:
This is an informative study, and has been for the last seven years. If you have a better compression that would let me, as a CDN, offer clients movie delivery to users with enough less bandwidth and storage it's worth retooling for, we're all ears. Again, I've talked to dozens upon dozens. None really had it. So far, given their original source, I could personally produce an even smaller x264 file that end users prefer.
Do you know you're not talking to some contractor, you're talking to the guy behind x264?
If you don't know him, read his analysis of VP8 (note copyright footer):
http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377
Having been in the streaming industry since the mid 90's, with heavy work in live and on demand encoding, I've seen dozens of these companies make similar claims, usually in pursuit of investment dollars. For years running, regardless of open source versus closed source, none stack up well against x264 when measured for the way people see video and for the resources taken to produce the encoded content.
You really don't have to read past the first graph:
http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2011/
This is an informative study, and has been for the last seven years. If you have a better compression that would let me, as a CDN, offer clients movie delivery to users with enough less bandwidth and storage it's worth retooling for, we're all ears. Again, I've talked to dozens upon dozens. None really had it. So far, given their original source, I could personally produce an even smaller x264 file that end users prefer.