Theora

Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation. Theora is a video codec, based on the VP3 codec donated by On2 Technologies.It can be used to distribute film and video online and on disc without the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with other formats. The quality of Theora-encoded video for a given bitrate is excellent. While there are some reasons to consider h.264 to be technically superior, the difference for web-quality video just isn't noticeable.

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FFmpeg 0.6, codenamed "Works with HTML5", Released

Written on June 16th, 2010 at 14:51 pm by shredder12

After nearly 15 months, FFmpeg developers have finally released another major version, FFmpeg 0.6 a.k.a "Works with HTML5". It might not sound like a "codename" but it really tells you a lot about what major improvements does this release comes with.

Google finally comes as a saviour for Open-video, funds TheorARM codec

Written on April 12th, 2010 at 20:54 pm by shredder12

The fight between Theora and H.264 to be "The One" is reginited with the decision of Google to fund TheorARM, an ARM-optimized version of Ogg Theora codec. ARM processors are used for small devices - mobiles, smartphones, PDAs etc. and this move by Google is a boost for this opensource codec in the world of hand-held devices.

IE9 preview ties the fight between H.264 and Ogg Theora

Written on March 18th, 2010 at 00:59 am by chia

With the ongoing fight about the codec technology to be used for the built-in video feature of HTML5, the decision of Microsoft for IE9 was looked upon as the major decider to bridge this major technology divide. But in IE9's preview this Tuesday, their decision to adopt H.264 technology proved to be heart breaker for Ogg Theora and open-source fan camp.

Hardware Accelerated Theora for Firefox Mobile, codenamed Fennec, on Nokia N900

Written on April 20th, 2010 at 01:48 am by shredder12

Matthew Gregan, a Mozilla employee working on improving audio and video support in Firefox, posted a blog about enabling Full screen video playback on Firefox on Mobile, Fennec on Nokia N900 without hogging 100% CPU. This has been possible due to David's work on the Project Leonora, funded by Mozilla, to enable Theora decoding on a DSP - hardware accelerated Ogg Theora.

Wikipedia breaks the tie, adopts Theora Codec

Written on March 20th, 2010 at 21:19 pm by chia

Whenever I read the term freedom of open or free knowledge, the first thing that comes to my mind is Wikipedia. It is a non-profit organization, is no doubt the biggest source of knowledge, featuring milllions of articles and provides you with probably everything you need to know, for free. But it does lack one important content type, Video. And now, the open video alliance has recently announced a project to support Videos on Wikipedia.

HTML5 Video Codec Debate

Written on January 26th, 2010 at 17:09 pm by chia

HTML5 is new web standard that is gaining popularity and will add many new features to your web experience. The next version of HTML i.e HTML5 will include several new tags for embedding video, audio, and other graphical content(<video>, <audio>, etc). Recently youtube announced that it is now supporting its new HTML5 video. With new HTML5 video player you will not need Adobe flash player to view it, videos will load faster.

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