Really it depends on when firefox ships liboggplay dirac/Schrödinger branch ( developed as in-part by the mozilla-wikimedia grant) http://metavid.org/blog/2009/01/27/mozillas-100k-theora-development-grant/ )

Firefox support will greatly increase client playback coverage and would be worth considering wider support. The basic ogg container parsing backend functionality has been under development to support both theora & dirac. We would also want to ship dirac in the firefogg to enable clients to encode to dirac. That is also under development. see ffmpeg2dirac.

So... yes the stage is being set for wider Dirac support in Wikikmedia and beyond ;) That being said...Theora has improved a great deal for covering the standard definition video content range what we are focused on for the immediate future: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/05/massive-theora-encoder-improvments-on-...

peace, --michael

Magnus Manske wrote:

It seems that the VLC media player is now available as V1.0 release candidate, featuring (among other things) a Dirac encoder.

How's our Dirac support these days?

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