Daala

Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology.

The effort is a collaboration between Mozilla Foundation, the Xiph.Org Foundation and any other contributors that wish to help.

The goal of the project is to provide a free-to-implement, -use and -distribute digital media format
and reference implementation with technical performance superior to H.265.

Please see the links below or the main page for more information.

Resources

Wiki Pages

• Daala Quickstart (Linux/MacOS)
• Daala Quickstart (Windows)
• Daala Weekly Meetings
• AreWeCompressedYet
• Daala To-do List
• Daala Roadmap
• Intra-prediction within Daala

• Historical Daala wiki page

Project Communication

You are encouraged to join the

• #daala IRC channel at freenode.net
• Daala Email List

You are also welcome to attend the weekly progress meetings using Mumble. The address is mf4.xiph.org and the port is 64738.
They occur on Tuesdays at 9AM Pacific Time (5PM UTC/GMT).

Websites

You can get a copy of the latest Daala Source Code from Git.Xiph.Org or GitHub.

• Xiph Code Reviews - there is a proposal on the review process here
• Monty's Demo Pages - explanations on certain techniques used in Daala
• Daala Project Status Board - what Daala bits the Mozilla people are working on
• Daala Etherpads - you can request a free account to view these. You should receive access within a few days.
• Daala T-shirts - if you'd like a free one, help out with the project and ask the Mozilla guys nicely for one :-)

JavaScript Demos

• Daala Video Player
• Edge-Directed Interpolation
• Intra-prediction

Documents

• Coding Tools for Daala IETF Draft
• Time-Domain Lapped Transforms (TDLT) IETF Draft
• Perceptual Vector Quantisation (PVQ) IETF Draft - there is also a PDF file
• Chroma from Luma (CfL)
• C API Documentation

Video Presentations

• 2015-01-31 Next up: FOSDEM 2015 - slides
• 2015-01-14 Tim Terriberry's presentation at Linux Conf 2015 - presentation summary - slides

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• 2014-09-16 Daala: Are We Compressed Yet?
• 2014-06-25 Sparsity Induced Prediction for Images and Video

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• 2013-10-23 Opus and Daala: State of the Art Royalty-free Codecs - accompanying slides
• 2013-09-30 Daala Coding Party 2 - unlord's slides
• 2013-05-02 Tim Terriberry Presents Daala

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• 2012-01-24 Tim Terriberry Talks (in 3 different formats) - accompanying slides (no video for slides 1-50 unfortunately)