Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] High resolutions with H.264

[Eugen Dedu <Eugen Dedu pu-pm univ-fcomte fr>]

Haeernilion wrote:
> Hi, 
>
> thanks for your remarks. Well, I implemented some changes to the Theora
> plugin in Opal so that I am now able to do have Ekiga videoconferencing
> sessions at resolution of 960x720 pixels. So far, I could not use Theora
> with higher resolutions since it seems that the maximal resolution is set at
> 1280x720. Well, I'm working on it but nevertheless, I would definitely
> prefere using H.264 because of its apparent superior quality outputs (though
> I have not compared them myself):
> http://www.osnews.com/story/19019/Theora_vs_h_264
> http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-quali-105-3.htm
>
> So, any inputs concerning H.264 would still be appreciated.

Hi,

I see that nobody answered :o(  Please repost your message upstream, to 
ptlib/opal mailing list (opalvoip-user lists sourceforge net).  Send 
also there the modifications you have done for theora.

Cheers,
Eugen

> cheers,
> Thomas
>
>
> Eugen Dedu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Very interesting analysis.  Unfortunately, I cannot help much...
> >
> > Just a question: wouldn't be better to use the free theora codec instead 
> > of the non-free h264 (unavailable on some gnu/linux distributions)? 
> > Also, I have done some *empirical* tests with ekiga and theora turned 
> > out to be a bit better than h264 at 640x480 (still I am not specialist 
> > of codecs).