MBmborch·Feb 2, 2017
Cisco's got a royalty-free codec that would let you decode like it's 2017. https://github.com/cisco/thor
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Thor Video Codec
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2015 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2016 | 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2016 | 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2016 | 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2016 | 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2016 | 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2016 | 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2016 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2016 | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2016 | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesVP9 implementations probably won't become all that much faster over time purely because the current development focus is the next-nextgen video codec that is under development via NetVC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/netvc/charter/) and the Alliance for Open Media (http://aomedia.org/). The codec will be built from the best features of Daala (http://xiph.org/daala/), Thor (https://github.com/cisco/thor) and VP10. Their rough release date is for early 2017.
In VP9 encoding/decoding performance vs. HEVC/H.264Cisco is working on royalty free open source video codec called Thor. https://github.com/cisco/thor
In Forging an Alliance for Royalty-Free VideoHello, I'm the Daala tech lead.
One of the things that made Opus a success was the contributions of others. We certainly don't have a monopoly on good ideas. We'll take pieces of Daala and stick them in Thor and pieces of Thor and stick them in Daala, and figure out what works best. Some of that experimentation has already begun:
https://github.com/cisco/thor/pull/8
https://review.xiph.org/874/
https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-netvc-5...
Because none of us have a financial incentive to get our patents into the standard, we're happy to pick whatever technology works best, as long as we end up with a great codec at the end. Hopefully NETVC can replicate the success of Opus this way.
In Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video CodecApparently because they're innovating with Thor, according to[0] Daala people are experimenting with Thor tech (IETF 93 was a few weeks ago) and Daala tech is being experimented for Thor[1]
[0] https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/93/slides/slides-93-netvc-5...
[1] https://github.com/cisco/thor/pull/8
In Thor – A Project to Hammer Out a Royalty Free Video Codec