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ATLANTA (AP) - Two officials close to the campaign say U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey will announce his bid for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.
The officials requested anonymity Tuesday because a formal announcement has yet to be made.
Gingrey would be the second Republican congressman from Georgia to enter what's expected to be a fierce campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2014. U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, earlier announced he would not be seeking a third term, citing frustration with partisan gridlock in Washington.
Gingrey was to announce his decision at a Wednesday morning event in Augusta. A Gingrey spokeswoman would only say the congressman would announce his decision on the Senate race.
Gingrey, an OB-GYN doctor from Marietta, was first elected to Congress in 2002.
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Charlie Hunnam may have mysteriously ducked out of playing Christian Grey and handed the flogger to Jamie Dornan, but that doesn't mean people are going to stop asking him about the role. A TMZ cameraman caught the Sons of Anarchy actor getting on his bike and had to ask him how he felt about Jamie Dornan. Ooooh, as soon as he opens his mouth, you sort of wish he still had it. That accent! Of course, Jamie has an Irish accent, but I guess none of it matters anyway since Christian is American. So what does the former Christian have to say about the current Christian?
Asked if he knows Jamie Dornan, Charlie says he doesn't. Does the TMZ guy think all actors know each other or something? He's then asked if he thinks Dornan will do a good job playing Christian. Busy getting his helmet on and looking quite hot doing it, he says:
He's going to do a great job. I don't really know his work but I know Sam [Taylor-Johnson] the director is amazing. She has fantastic taste.
Of course, he couldn't possibly have said he thought Jamie wouldn't do as good a job as HE would or anything like that -- but he didn't have to take his flattery so far either. In fact, he could have chosen to smile and say nothing. But he chose to praise a fellow actor and the director of the film he just left (or was booted from?).
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But the pap isn't going to let it lie there; he next asks who Charlie would pick to play Christian. Dude, what kind of question is that? Is it no wonder these paps get attacked? But Charlie gives a huge smile and says:
I'm sure she made a great choice.
The pap tries to get in one last question -- probably going to ask the exact same thing again -- but Charlie manages to hop on his bike and speed away as the pap yells a question about the Anastasia casting. Duuuude, that is already cast. Man, that guy is annoying.
But Charlie ... isn't he sexy? We need to get him another S&M movie.
Do you think he sincerely thinks Jamie is right for the role?
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he will ok i suppose but hes definatly not christian grey the book describes--i wish we could get charlie back!! that annoying paparazzi shoulda gotten punched in the face!
noo Charlie was not Christian.. And ofc he dodged that bullet he knew it thats why he told the dude .. " Good one" and laughed sarcasticlty.. Charlie is a good actor and has a good role where he is and im sure new movies will come for him.. hes a talented man ,.... but 50 Shades was NOT his movie

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Alcoa eyes growth in 2012
The world's leading aluminum producer is focusing on building high-quality engineered products that boost margins.
Consequently, the market has been quite harsh on the company's stock, pushing it down into single digits.
We have taken these factors into account in revising our price estimate for Alcoa from $16 to $14, which is approximately 40% ahead of the current market price.
Alcoa still stands behind its earlier forecast of aluminum consumption doubling by 2020, which translates into a 6.5% annual growth over the next nine years. Global economic uncertainty may not allow aluminum to recover during the next six months, but we believe that Alcoa's restructuring efforts and initiatives to develop high-end engineered products, as well as its focus on the automotive sector will help drive sales and allow for better operating margins going forward.
Alcoa is the world leader in the production and management of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, and competes globally with other mining giants like Rio Tinto (RIO) and BHP Billiton (BHP).
Alcoa is increasing focus on its midstream flat-rolled products and its downstream engineered products, eying the huge demand potential from automotive manufacturers. Globally, there is a shift toward the use of aluminum in automobiles to reduce vehicle weights in order to achieve better fuel efficiency.
The company is investing significantly in research and development to produce better technologies and materials for vehicles. Alcoa's joint venture with China Power Investment Corporation to manufacture high-quality engineered products also points to its shift of focus to higher margin businesses. However, in the near-term, the input costs here are significant.
With rising input costs, we have lowered our forecast for EBITDA margin on alumina sales to around 11% over the Trefis forecast period. Consequently, the decline in market prices will affect the Primary Metal margins as well. We estimate the figure at around 8.5%.
Flat rolled products were in demand in 2011 as well, with the average realized annual price jumping approximately 14%. We estimate them to hold strong going forward as well. As per our revised estimate, engineered products will witness robust growth of approximately 10% and EBITDA margins above 15%.
According to Trefis estimates, the primary aluminum business accounts for 29% of Alcoa's value. Although the engineered products division accounts for a small percentage of the company's revenues, better profitability and increased research and development will increase its contribution to overall profits going forward. We estimate that the business accounts for 28% of the company's stock value, about equal to the company's alumina business.
Alcoa has maintained its outlook for the next 10 years, stating that global aluminum demand will double by 2020, which implies a 6.5% compound annual growth rate. The company posted an operating loss of $193 million in Q4 2011, but we believe that strong fundamentals and robust outlook will help Alcoa's revenues going forward. Aluminum prices are largely driven by global economic conditions, so as the global economy eventually improves the company should post better earnings.
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Benton McClendon's Appliance Senior Legion baseball team scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to defeat Little Rock Express 8-3 Monday night on the campus of UALR.
McClendon's scored two runs in the first, two in the second and four in the fourth, while Little Rock scored two runs in the second and one run in the third.
Ryne Besancon led off the first with a triple and Levon Steward reached on a fielder's choice. Steward later scored on a RBI double by Chase Southworth. After a fly out, Corky Welch singled to plate Southworth.
Conway scored four runs in the first inning as they defeated Benton High School 6-0 Sunday. Conway added a run in the fourth and fifth innings as they tallied eight hits in the game.
Benton also managed eight hits, including two from Justin Vincent and Grayson Chilton. Matthew Krikorian was 1-1 with a walk, Taylor Schmidt was 1-2 and Jordan Britton was 1-3. Garrison Roy was 1-3.
Benton McClendon's Appliance Senior Legion baseball team scored eight runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to defeat Sylvan Hills 16-12 Saturday afternoon.
In the eighth, Gene Dunkin led off with a single and Briar Sample reached on a walk. Colton Welch singled and Jacob Keeney followed with a two-run double.
Both Levon Steward and Austin Hicks hit RBI singles. Matt Frelin hit an RBI single, and Dunkin hit a two-run home run to give McClendon's a two-run lead.
The Everett GMC AA Legion baseball team lost to Hot Springs Village after Hot Springs scored seven runs in the first, one in the second, two in the fourth and seven in the fifth to win 17-7 Friday night.
Everett scored a run in the first and second innings, four in the fourth and one in the fifth.
In the first inning, Ryne Bewley was hit by a pitch and Hunter Wray walked to begin the inning. A wild pitch, an error and a ground out by Austin Kennedy trimmed Hot Spring Village's lead to 7-1.
In a 7 -on- 7 tournament at Ouachita Baptist University, the Benton Panthers finished with a record of 5-3 over two days.
The Panthers lost to Lake Hamilton twice and to Shiloah Christian. On the first day, they defeated Sheridan 12-10, lost to Lake Hamilton 24-22, lost to Shiloah Christian 28-12 and defeated Kirk Academy, a school from Mississippi, 30-0.
On the second day, Benton lost to Lake Hamilton 28-10, but defeated Shiloah Christian 20-2, Camden 28-22 and Warren 12-8.
Pine Bluff defeated McClendon's Appliance 10-3 in seven innings Thursday night at Bernard Holland Park. Pine Bluff scored a run in the first, one in the second, one in the third, one in the fifth, five in the sixth and one in the seventh.
Benton scored a run in the third and two in the sixth. Pine Bluff had 10 runs on eight hits and McClendon's had three runs on seven hits.
In the first, Ryan Bewley reached on a walk and after a passed ball would later score on a ground out by Levon Steward.
The Benton Sport Shop Legion baseball team defeated Lake Hamilton Tuesday 12-7 at Lake Hamilton High School.
Benton scored seven runs in the first, four in the third and one in the fourth. Lake Hamilton scored a run in the first, three in the second, one in the third and two in the fourth.
Benton had 12 runs on seven hits with three errors and Lake Hamilton had seven runs on seven hits with just one error.
"That first inning was key for us," manager Johnny Mitchell said. "Their pitcher was throwing a lot of balls and that was what started the game.
"We got base hits at key times."
Arkansas State pitcher and Benton native Andy Ferguson was selected in the 18th round by the Kansas City Royals in the 2011 MLB draft.
"I'm relieved," Ferguson said. "It feels great. I don't even know how to put into words of how I feel right now."
Ferguson was the 546th overall pick in the draft but as of press time he was unsure of the details of his contract. The Kansas City organization was supposed to call him Tuesday night with the details, but Ferguson said through a text message that he had not heard from them yet.
The Benton Everett GMC AA Legion baseball team defeated Little Rock Blue Post but lost to Pine Bluff in Saturday's tournament at Pine Bluff High School.
Everett scored a run in the first inning, five in the second, one in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth to defeat Blue Post 10-9 in the first game. Blue Post scored a run in the fourth and eight in the fifth.
Dylan Oliver pitched three innings, allowing just two hits with two strikeouts and two walks. Holden Hanley pitched one inning, but allowed six runs on two hits with a strikeout and a walk.
The Benton Junior Legion team Sport Shop lost three straight games in a tournament in Jacksonville including a 6-5 loss to Rosebud, a 8-5 loss to Jacksonville and a 11-0 rout to Sheridan on Sunday.
In Sunday's game against Sheridan, Sport Shop managed just three hits while Sheridan scored 11 runs on nine hits with just one error. Benton's Tyler Massey had a single in the first inning and Jay Davies had a single in the second.
Tyler Turbyfill had a single in the fifth inning to account for all three hits. Braxton Zimmerman reached on a walk in the second inning.


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VANCOUVER - Canadian rock band Nickelback will perform at halftime of the 99th Grey Cup.
The multi-platinum group from Hanna, Alta., was announced as the main act for the Nov. 27 game at BC Place Stadium during halftime of Friday's game between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos.
"For proud Canadians like us, it's an honour to share the stage with the best teams in the league going head to head for the Grey Cup," band frontman Chad Kroeger said in a release. "With Nickelback based in Vancouver, and the game at BC Place, this is a home game for us, and we can't wait to play."
The Grey Cup will be the second halftime show Nickelback plays in a span of four days.
The group is also scheduled to play at halftime of the U.S. Thanksgiving game in Detroit on Nov. 24 between the Lions and the Green Bay Packers.
Some Lions fans have voiced their displeasure with the choice, starting an online petition slamming the choice.
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America is divided about its future. Should it keep and expand the system that brought past opportunity, prosperity and freedom? Or should it dismantle that system?
President Obama recently reminded us that private life, private enterprise and personal freedom depend on what the public provides.
"The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.... when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don't do on our own.... So we say to ourselves, ever since the founding of this country ... there are some things we do better together. That's how we funded the GI Bill. That's how we created the middle class. That's how we built the Golden Gate Bridge or the Hoover Dam. That's how we invented the Internet. That's how we sent a man to the moon. We rise or fall together as one nation and as one people ... I still believe in that idea. You're not on your own, we're in this together.... If you were successful, ... somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive."
Conservatives are up in arms about Obama's statement and for good reason. In the conservative worldview, the public's role for personal success is largely hidden or ignored. Instead, conservatives have a different vision of what America should be: everyone ought to look out for him- or herself - for example, buy your own protection for your life via privatized health care and buy your own empowerment to succeed via privatized education.
Obama is acknowledging an important truth about American private life and enterprise: It builds on the public. From the beginning, the American public jointly created the means for knowledge, health, commerce and recreation: Schools and libraries, hospitals, public roads, bridges, clean water and sewers, a federal banking system, a system of interstate commerce, public buildings and records, a court system mostly for commercial disputes, an Army and a Navy, police and firemen, public playgrounds and parks The American public has always provided such things to promote private business and individual freedom.
More recently, the public has added funding for food safety and public health; university research; telecommunications; urban development; and subsidies for corporate profit in corporate-run industries like energy, agribusiness and military contracting. There are thousands of ways, large and small, in which the public, all of us acting together, provides the essentials for individual freedom and opportunity and thriving businesses.
That is what President Obama meant when he recently said, "If you've got a business - you did not build that," where "that" refers to the totality of what the public provides that empowered you, making available the conditions required for personal success.
The president states a simple truth here. Business owners across America do not build their own roads and bridges, sewers and water systems; they do not single-handedly maintain the health of their employees; they do not finance their own court system; and they did not build their own Internet to market and sell their products. The public provides these things, together. The government manages our shared financial resources to make these things happen. That's the government's job.
Obama could have communicated this fact better. When he says, "If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life," he does not stress the fact that the public is a commonly organized and maintained system that is built and maintained by all of us together, in a shared effort to protect and empower Americans to live freely and to thrive in their private and professional lives.
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MISSION - Rene Javier Alvarado, 57, died on September 9, 2011 at McAllen Medical Center.
He was born in Laredo to the late Salvador Alvarado and Ruby Center. Mr. Alvarado was an oilfield contractor in the Mission area, one of the founders of GOTCO and owner and operator of Alvarado Lease Services. He was a member of Iglesia De Cristo in Alton.
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The Uncontested Word: Why do Some Historians Treat Religious Texts as Sacred?
Richard Firth-Godbehere contemplates the historical provenance and value of religious texts.
Published for The Skeptic online on 17th April 2013.
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There are a great many historians who practice religions of all flavours. Some historians jump headlong into the history of their particular faith, blending it with apologetics and philosophy. Others simply ignore their religious predilections and concentrate on other areas of history, sealing their faith in a mental box with a sign huge on the lid reading 'do not enter while studying'. I am sure this arrangement or something similar to it is found throughout all walks of academic life, but I find it particularly puzzling when I find it amongst historians. I know of many good historians who take their collection of fables as absolutely true; it is one of the most fascinating and puzzling examples of cognitive dissonance I know of.
After all, a historian is, by definition, someone who is deeply sceptical about old texts and artefacts. It is a historian's job to dust off manuscripts, wade through archives, dig things out of dark corners and not believe a word of it (unless there is some good supporting evidence, of course). Even when a historian does believe a word of it, he tempers this with a deep analysis of the text or object at hand, stripping it down in order to work out what the narrative really is, as opposed to what the text or object claims it is. In short, we historians are deeply sceptical pedants: each and every one of us. So why does pedantry, suspicion and obsessive checking, cross-checking, double checking and rechecking disappear so often in the face of a religious text? Here, I'll take a lightly meandering journey through the peripheries of the philosophy of history in order to find out if there is any validity in accepting a religious text as good source of history.
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Russell Moore of Camino in Oakland, cooks some of the vegetables for this dish right in the fire, infusing the salad with smokiness. Serve it with fried eggs or any type of grilled meat or fish.
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- Calories: 269
- Calories from fat: 64%
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- Fat: 20g
- Saturated fat: 2.9g
- Carbohydrate: 23g
- Fiber: 5.2g
- Sodium: 212mg
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- 2 yellow bell peppers
- 1 cup lightly packed fresh mint leaves, torn into pieces
- 1. Build a wood fire* in a camp grill or fire ring, using about 4 logs and some kindling; let burn to medium (you can hold your hand 5 in. above cooking grate only 5 to 7 seconds), about 1 hour. Adjust fire so there's a thick area of embers and smaller logs in the middle and larger logs to the sides.
- 2. Smash garlic, put in a small bowl with vinegar, and set aside. In a large bowl, toss zucchini, corn, and tomatoes with 2 tbsp. oil, 1/2 tsp. salt, and 1/4 tsp. pepper.
- 3. Place onions in embers between some smaller logs and cook, turning every 10 minutes or so, until completely black and soft when squeezed with tongs, 25 to 40 minutes. Meanwhile, set peppers on embers and cook, turning every few minutes, until completely charred, about 20 minutes. Transfer vegetables to a board and let cool.
- 4. Set cooking grate in place, if using a portable one. Grill zucchini, corn, and tomatoes (in batches, if needed), turning occasionally, until grill marks appear, 5 to 35 minutes, depending on distance from fire.
- 5. Pull off blackened outsides from onions and peppers. Cut corn kernels from cobs into large bowl. Cut remaining vegetables into slices or strips, discarding seeds; add to bowl.
- 6. Stir remaining 6 tbsp. oil into vinegar with remaining 1/4 tsp. each salt and pepper. Toss gently with vegetables, add mint, and more salt and pepper if you like.
- *Or cook all the vegetables over (but not in) a medium (350° to 450°) charcoal fire, adding 8 briquets every 30 minutes.
- Note: Nutritional analysis is per 1 1/2-cup serving.
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The first Thusnelda theora encoder release
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I'd like to offer congratulations to all the Xiph folks, but especially Monty, Ralph and Tim on the theora-1.1alpha1 release from the Thusnelda encoder branch.
To try it out, I transcoded a short (1m40s) 720p trailer video from H.264+AAC to Theora+Vorbis, at libtheora quality setting of 32, using the 1.0 theora encoder, and again with 1.1. It's not a very rigorous experiment, but enlightening nonetheless.
Both encoders produced output of comparable visual quality. With the 1.0 theora encoder the output file was 24383125 bytes. Of that, the video portion is about 1.835 Mbit/s. With libtheora 1.1alpha1, the same quality is reached with only 19088009 bytes (video at 1.416 Mbit/s)!
That's a pretty easy 20-ish% compression improvement for no loss in quality. As an added bonus, the transcoding time dropped from 2m10s to 1m52s. That's not quite real-time for this frame size in either case, but an impressive step closer.
There's some degradation from the visual quality of the original file. That's to be expected when taking a 5.61 Mbit/s video stream down to less than a third of the original size – even on the same codec.
For comparison, here's a random frame from the output of each encoder, along with the same frame from the original file:
Sweeeet. Well done, guys!
25 Responses to " The first Thusnelda theora encoder release "
March 28th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Only one of the three screenshot links works.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:57 am
Yeah – I was having a bit of trouble with the images and the limited bandwidth this machine lives on.
I moved them to another server, and they should all be working now
March 28th, 2009 at 3:05 am
March 28th, 2009 at 3:08 am
I only skimmed over the text and immediately loaded the images to compare them. I thought "hm, there's a noticable difference between H.264 and the Theora samples, but I don't see a difference betweeen the Theora samples". After reading the text it's pretty obvious why that is so I looked quite a bit and didn't find any visible differences between the Theora samples. And with 20% savings that's pretty cool!
March 28th, 2009 at 3:18 am
It is indeed X-Men! (X-Men 3, to be exact)
March 28th, 2009 at 3:54 am
It's worth pointing out that the encoder for the original (H.264) is pretty much irrelevant as it's merely the input. Ideally a lossless input would be used but most people don't have lossless video lying around.
If you wanted to compare H.264 perfomance with Theora you'd need to re-encode with H.264 and match output quality/bitrates and lots of other things that would probably be too much bother.
Bottom line, these screenshots are not a valid Theora/Thusnelda vs. H.264 quality comparison. The original post doesn't claim they are, but the 4th comment could be read that way and there's enough Theora misinformation about as it is.
They are however a nice quick and dirty demonstration of Theora progress, so cheers for that.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:25 am
there is a noticeable difference in the sky. teh 1.1 version is more blurred, in the 1.0 version you can see more detail (not too much, but still very noticeable)
March 28th, 2009 at 6:45 am
there is quite a noticeable difference between the two theora files to me at least, the clouds in 1.1 are far blockier than in 1.0
March 28th, 2009 at 7:59 am
That's great news for me. I convert H.264 to ogg because the quality is the same (that I see on my screen) and the filesize is significantly smaller.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:06 am
The Theora 1.1 output looks worse to me. Look at clouds, particularly the wisps in the top right of the shot. They've become quite blocky. Considering the two Theora frames are encoded at the same bitrate, I'd go so far as to claim it's "significantly" worse. There also seems to be detail loss on the building. It's harder to quantify, but it looks softer.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
To my eye, the quality of the 1.1 encode is noticeably worse than the 1.0 encode. See the image below showing an example – a segment of the blue sky from the right side of the image. The 1.1 encode is much more blocky here, with clear visible horizontal lines.
March 28th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Could I get a link to refutations of commonly-heard FUD about theora? There's a Microsoftie who likes to talk smack about theora, but I don't (yet) do hardcore video stuff, so I'm reliant upon my news sources to learn about it. Unfortunately, my news sources aren't that good.
March 28th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
The clouds in the second theora shot look more "grainy" than the first theora shot.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Yeah, it's a general problem that most Theora examples have been produced by transcoding H.264, which means the Theora examples are guaranteed to look worse…
March 28th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Maybe the best way to demonstrate to the detractors that Thusnelda is a far better encoder is to ramp up the quality of the encoding to match the output size with the theora-1.0 encoder.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Also would love to see someone grab the Big Buck Bunny source pngs and encode them into the three formats for comparison.
March 29th, 2009 at 5:25 am
So… The above is an inadvisable test methodology.
As others here have pointed out, the sky in the '1.1′ sample is less clear. This is NOT, however, a flaw in 1.1: It's producing that output with a 20% lower bitrate. I, personally, find it impressive that its holding up that well at the lower rate.
The quality knob in Theora is a unitless relative value (you could think of it as a 'sharpness knob' with differing meaning version to version), it has no meaning across versions. It's a knob you turn up for more quality (and bitrate) and down for less. It might be that 40 in 1.1 produces worse quality than 35 1.0, but so long as 1.1 does it with lower bitrate it still may be fair to call 1.1 the better encoder.
What all this means is that the images here are not really comparable. What you should do is adjust the settings until both have the same bitrate. Then gauge quality. The one with the better quality wins.
Unfortunately this method is weak too— all these encoders are variable bitrate for a frame. So an overall better encoder may have just used fewer bits on any given frame. If you happen to pick that frame for your comparison you're going to get incorrect results. A good test would need to involve many images.
…and even that isn't enough: These are moving images, still comparisons are not always representative.
It was mentioned above, but I should repeat it: Using low bitrate compressed input makes for bad test cases. The decompressed input file is full of quantization noise which may not be visible to you, but which the encoder now has to waste bits attempting to approximate. The behaviour ends up being very sensitive to the source material. Compressed inputs are a reality, true, but nothing is going to handle low bitrate compressed inputs especially well, so they don't make for good general compression comparison points.
March 29th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Just to reiterate what was said in the original post, because some commenters missed it, the two Theora shots are not at the same bitrate.
Given that fact, for those that feel that the Thusnelda frame looks worse (or even just part of the frame looks worse), note that it's possible for this frame to actually be slightly worse and for this to still represent an improvement in the codec. Note the words from the original post: "output of comparable visual quality", "a random frame" and "not a very rigorous experiment".
The changes in Thusnedla have sound theory behind them and despite having to work within certain fixed limits of the format the developers are confident that Theora has the potential of being competitive with MPEG4-class codecs. I guess we just have to wait and see if there's enough improvement to move the general geek attitude towards Theora from "total apathy" to "grudging acceptance".
March 29th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
For the record, I wasn't saying that the 1.1 encode being slightly lower quality somehow invalidated the main point. Obviously it's quite an achievement to get such similar results with very different bitrates.
The author said "that's a pretty easy 20-ish% compression improvement for no loss in quality." I was just suggesting that maybe it is only 15-ish% for the same quality – even that would be a huge achievement.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Building off of comment 17 and others, why not re-post with a cleaner example? (Starting from lossless input, use clips rather than stills, provide more captioning detail, etc.)
March 30th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Another interesting point is managed-bitrate vs quality mode.
Theora (and Vorbis, for that matter) can either target a 'quality' and allow the bitrate to swing wildly depending on the complexity of the source material; or it can target a particular bitrate where the codec works hard to achieve a specific bitrate within a specific time window (comparable to the players buffer).
The former is what you use when you are interested in smaller sizes for bulk transport as it gives the best quality for a given file size. The latter is what you need to use for streaming since it will not allow a suddenly complex scene to leave the user stuck paused waiting for re-buffering.
Theora 1.0 managed bitrate mode was simply broken, it frequently missed its bitrate target (failing far in both directions) and the quality was much worse than it should have been at whatever bitrate it ended up with. The 1.1 alpha does much better in this regard: it is accurate to the target rate and delivers much better quality.
This can, paradoxically, lead to 1.1a giving worse quality for a given requested bitrate as 1.0 may have overshot the request and ended up giving better quality but at a bitrate higher than the set limit. This isn't a flaw in 1.1a; if you didn't really care about the bitrate limit you shouldn't have been using bitrate managed mode.
Significant about all this is that multiple people comparing Theora may come to dramatically different conclusions about how much of an improvement 1.1a is: People comparing quality mode are likely to conclude that it is a clear but moderate improvement, while people comparing bitrate managed mode are more likely to decide that it is an enormous improvement… unless they hit a case where the old encoder was seriously overshooting, in which case they may decide that 1.1a sucks.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:20 am
Would it be possible to show an H.264 version of the image at the same bitrate as the Theora 1.1 version? This would help to dispel most of the confusion.
March 31st, 2009 at 5:39 am
Comparing to H.264 wasn't the point – I wanted to see what would happen if I dropped theora 1.1alpha1 in place of theora-1.0 and encoded something.
The H.264 show is only to give an idea of which detail the 2 encoders *could* preserve.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:37 pm
[b]@ dave[b]
What do you mean by these 2 things:
dave says:
March 28th, 2009 at 3:54 am
It's worth pointing out that the encoder for the original (H.264) is pretty much irrelevant as it's merely the input. Ideally a lossless input would be used but most people don't have lossless video lying around.
[i] If you wanted to compare H.264 perfomance with Theora you'd need to re-encode with H.264 and match output quality/bitrates and lots of other things that would probably be too much bother. [/i]
April 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Raw video.
As far as input video available in raw format…
Sita Sings the Blues (awesome movie, btw)
is available in raw format. It might be interesting source of raw video for encoding testing. It is animation, so it would be a different kinda of test source.


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