I agree that the complaining about Theora's quality is blown of of proportion by people who don't know any better. Theora is definitely better than low-definition FLV files as streamed by YouTube and better than MPEG-2. But can you really claim it is better than H.264? I don't see many differences in the Theora vs H.264 images on the comparison page, but I can clearly see the differences in the actual videos. H.264 is better than Theora, although not by too much.
I'm more curious about how Theora compares to XviD/DivX, which is (was?) the standard in the video encoding community. But so far I haven't seen any comparisons.
Theora is slightly better than XviD, which is much better than DivX. They are still the standard as far as I know, though being supplanted by H.264 encoders for high-end use.
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I agree that the complaining about Theora's quality is blown of of proportion by people who don't know any better. Theora is definitely better than low-definition FLV files as streamed by YouTube and better than MPEG-2. But can you really claim it is better than H.264? I don't see many differences in the Theora vs H.264 images on the comparison page, but I can clearly see the differences in the actual videos. H.264 is better than Theora, although not by too much.
I'm more curious about how Theora compares to XviD/DivX, which is (was?) the standard in the video encoding community. But so far I haven't seen any comparisons.
I don't know how to help if you can't tell the difference between the examples at < http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html >. The H.264 examples are significantly blurrier than the Theora versions.
Theora is slightly better than XviD, which is much better than DivX. They are still the standard as far as I know, though being supplanted by H.264 encoders for high-end use.