Should we package Daala for experimental?

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Tue Nov 8 09:21:59 UTC 2016


[Ralph Giles]
> I'm not directly involved with daala, but my suggestion is 'no'. The
> daala project is contributing to the Alliance for Open Media codec
> design standardized by the IETF NetVC working group. That codec is more
> likely to see widespread use than daala on its own, assuming the
> standardization effort is successful.

Aha.  I was not aware of this.  Thank you for bringing it to my
attention.

> Packaging the 'av1' codec reference implementation for experimental
> purposes would be more helpful I think. The code is
> https://aomedia.googlesource.com/aom/

Sound like a good idea.  Any idea if it is hard to package?
--
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen



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