Support has also been added to FFmpeg. Applications which can encode to Dirac include MediaCoder, LiVES and OggConvert, as well as FFmpeg. The algorithms in the Dirac specification have been designed with the intention to provide a competitive performance as compared to state-of-the-art international standards. Whether they succeeded is an open question; while at least one comparison exists which used implementations from the second quarter of 2008—it shows x264 scoring higher than Dirac—it is now somewhat out of date. A study on the performances of the Dirac codec, dated from August 2009, finds that the quality obtained on SDTV is inferior to the H.264 output and did not include HD content.