A few weeks ago the Mozilla Foundation announced they are contributing $100,000 grant to the Wikimedia Foundation to advance open video.
We believe that Theora is the best path available today for truly open, truly free video on the internet. We also believe that it can be improved in video quality, in performance, and in quality of implementation, and Mozilla is proud to be supporting the development of Theora software with a $100,000 (USD) grant. Administered by the Wikimedia Foundation, this grant will be used to support development of improved Theora encoders and more powerful playback libraries.
I'm as big a fan of open standards and open source as almost anyone, but I like things that work a bit more. Ogg Theora has serious short comings as a viable replacement to H.264 in both quality to compression ratio and licensing.
Is anyone in the group actively working with the Ogg codecs? We'd love to see some side by side comparisons of Ogg to other codecs and compression times using FFMPEG to create them.