State of theora

Monty has posted another of his excellent technical updates on the theora encoder rewrite which has been ongoing for more than a year now. It's a good summary of what went into the recent beta releases.

We still have a bit to go before the final 1.1 though; the new rate control still behaves badly on a some clips.

The complete set of status reports:

• Part 1 early 2008
• Part 2 2008 March 20
• Part 3 2008 June 5
• Part 4 2008 July 3
• Part 5 2008 July 24
• Part 6 2009 April 2
• Part 7 2009 May 7
• Part 8 2009 August 20