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-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
-<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
- <title>Xiph.org: About</title>
-<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
-<!-- All your page content goes here -->
-
-<h1>About Xiph</h1>
-<h2>A little bit about us, what we do, and why you should care</h2>
-<p>A market-speak summary of the Xiph.Org Foundation might read something
- like: "Xiph.Org is a collection of <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open source</a>, multimedia-related
- projects. The most aggressive effort works to put the foundation standards of
- Internet audio and video into the public domain, <em>where all Internet standards
- belong</em>." ...and that last bit is where the passion comes in.</p>
-
-<p>Xiph.Org is about open source and the ideals for which free
- software stands. Open source is not a fad any more than the Internet
- is. It is a necessary force driving innovation and the Internet
- forward while protecting the interests of individuals, artists,
- developers and consumers.</p>
-
-<p>We're about bringing open source and open source ideals to
- multimedia...and media on the Internet needs us.</p>
-
-<h2>"Why do I need open source? I'm not a hacker."</h2>
-
-<p>Closed source software is not evil, nor is it necessarily inferior in
- quality to open source. What is certain, however, is that closed
- source and closed protocols do not serve the public interest; they
- exist by definition to serve the bottom line of a corporation. The
- foundations of the Internet today are built of a long, hardy history
- of open development, free exchange of ideas and unprecedented levels
- of intellectual cooperation. These foundations continue to weather
- the storm caused by the corporate world's rush to cash in.
-</p>
-<p>It is not a coincidence that Microsoft was blind to the phenomenon of
- the Internet for so long. The burgeoning Internet was against their
- very way of thinking; a Microsoft Internet (tm) would have been
- profit-directed, designed by the same people who considered 'on-demand
- TV' the great innovation of the future. Microsoft Internet, if
- profitable, would have been followed by the release of IBM's
- marginally compatible OS/Internet, Borland's TurboInternet, ad
- absurdum. The Net, as designed by warring corporate entities, would
- be a battleground of incompatible and expensive 'standards' had it
- actually survived at all.</p>
-
-<p>The Internet exists today and continues to move forward
- <em>despite</em>, not because of, corporate self-interest; critical
- mass passed the point of no return long before Microsoft and Netscape
- tried to salt the earth of their rivals. The great advances in
- computer engineering and science came from research labs and
- universities, freely shared with the rest of the world. You would not
- be reading this at your PC, workstation or iMac today if Microsoft
- held a patent on TCP/IP. </p>
-
-<p>The point is not that companies that try to make money on the new
- popularity of the net are in some way inherently immoral or greedy.
- Rather, the point is that companies must not be allowed to use the
- infrastructure we all depend upon as a weapon against their rivals to
- the detriment of all others. The Internet is a common resource and as
- with other cooperatively shared resources, the "Tragedy of the
- Commons" looms large. Competitive behavior dictates that eventually a
- company will act on their own interests to the detriment of all others
- <em>unless a mechanism exists to prevent it</em>.</p>
-
-<p>Commodity standards and software must be free because open source is
- that controlling mechanism. We're the only mechanism we've got.</p>
-
-<h2 id='fraunhofer' style='margin-bottom: 0;'>"Why does multimedia specifically need open source?"</h2>
-<h3 style='margin-top: 0;'>Example: An 'open' standard closes</h3>
-
-<p>In September of 1998, the world of Internet media took an unexpected
-(but long dreaded) turn when Fraunhofer IIS sent a "letter of
-infringement" to several small commercial and open source MPEG audio
-layer 3 development projects.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <p>In the letter, [Fraunhofer claims] that due to patents
- they hold related to MP3, they are entitled to
- royalties for any commercial players, all encoders
- (whether sold or <strong>given away</strong>), and
- also works of art sold in MP3 format.</p>
-
- <p>The letter of infringement had an immediate effect on
- the free encoder programs with many being removed from
- their official web site. Affected encoders include
- Plugger, CDEX, soloH, 8Hz, Blade, Canna, and
- others. [...] Fraunhofer is demanding a royalty
- payment beginning at $25 per encoder. Additionally, a
- 1% or .01 per file royalty is also put forth as being
- required.</p>
- <p>—mp3.com article by Michael Robertson</p>
- <!-- formerly http://www.mp3.com/news/095.html -->
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The projects affected had based their work on code long freely
- available in the ISO MPEG audio standard. The debate about whether or
- not Fraunhofer was within their rights or not is beside the point;
- this is an illustration of the amount of control commercial entities
- will attempt to exert over commodity standards; this meddling is
- detrimental to open efforts and deadly to business (except for members
- of the MPEG consortium that is). Keep in mind that MPEG is considered
- among the <em>most</em> open multimedia standards (at least until the
- 800-lb. gorilla members of MPEG manage to sue the smaller encoder
- efforts out of existence); there are few or no cutting-edge open
- standards for streamed audio or video on the Internet today. Closed
- competition has just made matters worse; now there are several
- dominant and entirely incompatible closed 'standards'.</p>
-
-<p>Our purpose is to open the field up a bit. Unfortunately we're not
- fighting on this front alone. Music and media on the net today also
- face corporate domination of the <em>content itself </em>...</p>
-
-<h2>Music isn't an <em>art</em>, it's an <em>industry</em>.</h2>
-
-<p>Internet media issues don't apply solely to source code or information
- format. Controlling the music itself is a burning issue for the music
- industry.</p>
-
-<p>—and <em>industry</em> is the key word here. Music is no longer an
- expression of the soul or the work of an artist; it's a 'product' that
- is manufactured, packaged, catalogued, distributed, managed,
- regulated, and above all <em>sold</em>. Music is just another vehicle for
- maximizing profits. The RIAA, mainly a front for the recording
- industry that supports the status quo, trumpets loudly that the
- Internet is the greatest threat to artists that the world has ever
- known... at the same time that the RIAA is making a desperate grab to
- control this new distribution infrastructure. The great irony is that
- the Internet might indeed be an artist's worst nightmare-- if the RIAA
- <em>succeeds</em>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <p>...corporate mergers are squeezing hundreds of
- musicians out of the business without even giving
- them the rights to their recordings, and executives
- of major record labels are meeting behind closed
- doors to develop a way to police and control the
- distribution of music on the Internet.<br/>
- [...]<br/>
- Putting control of the Internet in the hands of the
- corporations means that a utopian musical vision may
- be dying. ...the chances of a dystopian world are
- increasing, one in which record companies have even
- greater control over music distribution</p>
-
- <p>--the New York Times, Monday, May 17, 1999, article by Neil Strauss</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>One major push in the RIAA effort to control the music distribution
- infrastructure of the Internet is to legislate mandatory 'digital
- watermarks' for playback. Players that do not look for these
- 'watermarks' or play the music anyway will be illegal. Make an
- educated guess as to who will control the watermarks.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <p>the record industry has a plan to force
- hardware and software companies to exclusively
- adopt its Secure Digital Music Initiative as
- the standard for delivering music online.
- ...SDMI backers want manufacturers to build a
- time-bomb trigger into their products that,
- when activated at a later date, would prevent
- users from downloading or playing
- non-SDMI-compliant music. The hardware would
- initially support MP3 and other compressed
- file formats, but a signal from the RIAA would
- activate the blocking trigger.</p>
-
- <p>--<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19682.html">Wired News article by Christopher Jones</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<h2>a history lesson</h2>
-
-<p>The current position and function of the music industry is an
- invented one. Approximately one lifetime ago, recordings were not
- technologically possible. With the advent of recorded sound,
- enterprising businessmen (Thomas Edison, a worthy predecessor of Bill
- Gates, and Columbia Music, just as tough and nasty) found that
- prepackaged recordings could be turned out in endless, identical
- quantity for very little cost and sold. </p>
-
-<p>This wasn't an entirely new idea; an example of a preceding 'packaged
- performance' technology is the player piano roll. It is interesting
- to note, however, that these rolls were held by the courts to be
- <em>uncopyrightable</em>; the music itself was protected, but the
- 'performance' was not. The music industry originally lobbied the
- courts and Congress to keep these formats copyright-free so that it
- would not owe artists any royalties; in 1908, the Supreme Court ruled
- that phonograph records and player piano rolls did not fall under
- copyright.</p>
-
-<p>It is important to note that selling recordings was a tenable business
- plan only because the average person could not produce a recording.
- If the phonograph record were cheaply reproducible in that day, the
- prepackaged music industry would never have existed as it would have
- been impossible from the very beginning to prevent people from making
- copies which were, at the time, entirely legal.</p>
-
-<p>Congress changed the copyright law in 1909 to explicitly grant
- composers royalties on recordings sold. At the time, the music
- industry protested the decision bitterly; eventually it settled for
- requiring artists to sign over copyright on all work as a standard
- element of a recording contract.</p>
-
-<p>The copyright protects the record label, not the artist.</p>
-
-<p>(<a href="http://www.news.com.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,34963,00.html">an article on the subject from CNET</a>)</p>
-
-<h2>Fast forward to the 1970s</h2>
-
-<p>The undoing of the distribution profit juggernaut began with the
- compact cassette tape, a development greeted by as much wailing and
- gnashing of teeth within the walls of Music Inc. as MP3 is causing
- today. Although the copy wasn't as good as the original, it was cheap
- and easy to make. Copying commercial music was once only the domain
- of organized crime; now any individual could make a copy trivially.
- The industry tried to outlaw the compact cassette, then settled for
- taxing it and legislating against copying.</p>
-
-<p>Digital audio tape (DAT) caused the next uproar; a perfect copy was
- now possible. The music industry players, forerunners to the RIAA,
- sought to destroy this technology and mostly succeeded; DAT never
- caught on at any sizable level. It is interesting to note that
- "small-time" artists depend heavily on DAT for production and
- recording; this is practically the only music segment that ever bought
- into DAT. Clearly the RIAA didn't have their interests at heart.</p>
-
-<p>Computers, the Internet and especially MP3 have now made the copy
- easier, cheaper and more convenient than the prepackaged content on
- sale.</p>
-
-<p>That the copy costs nothing concerns intellectual property, a real
- worry for artists. That the <em>distribution</em> costs nothing is
- what really motivates the anti-MP3/anti-Internet effort. Copyright,
- once bitterly contested by the music industry, is now clung to as a
- weapon to preserve the distribution chain.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
- <p>Copyright law has always been more about protecting
- the interests of publishers than those of creators.
- The Internet in general, and MP3 in particular, have
- drastically reduced the costs (financial,
- convenience, material, distribution) of creators
- getting their material out to their audience, and
- have *almost* made it trivial for audience members
- to *directly* pay creators for access to their work.</p>
-
- <p>The middlemen have become irrelevant. The smart
- ones are devising new business models --- O'Reilly
- isn't going away because they are perceived as
- genuinely adding value and lots of their customers
- would buy their books even if they're available for
- download.</p>
-
- <p>I just paid $20 for Neal Stephenson's new book; he
- probably got about $3 of my money, if that. The
- other $17 went to the distribution chain, of which
- *maybe* $1 goes to people who actually contributed
- to the book --- editors who actually edited,
- proofreaders, etc.</p>
-
- <p>Eventually, a favorite author will release a new
- novel and I will pay $5, of which the majority will
- go to the author and all but a few pennies to other
- real contributors, for access to it with rights to
- print one copy.</p>
-
- <p>The middlemen are merely fighting a rearguard action
- against the tide of history; a delaying action that
- may alter *when* I will buy a book that way, but not
- the ultimate reality.</p>
-
- <p>—Carl Alexander <a href="mailto:xela at mit.edu"><xela at mit.edu></a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The music industry finds itself in a position where the basic
- assumption behind its original business model (the recording is too
- expensive for a person to reproduce him or herself and the
- distribution can be tightly controlled for maximal profit) is no
- longer true. The music industry feels extremely threatened. It
- should. This is a major evolutionary pressure.</p>
-
-<p>Evolutionary? Of course; commercial music is faced with extinction
- only as long as it refuses to adapt, as long as it refuses to loosen
- its grip on the endless easy profits it believes it is entitled to.
- The industry is not acting to protect artists or the artists'
- interests (bards, musicians and storytellers thrived long before there
- was an industry to 'protect' them), it is not acting to prevent
- musicians from being 'driven out of business' (it impoverishes artists
- itself); it is acting to preserve the status quo and its own
- profit-inflated bulk. It's quite possible for the music industry to
- refashion itself, but rather than evolving and thriving in a new
- niche, the Dinosaurs, staggering under their own smothering weight,
- are trying to legislate the Mammals out of existence.</p>
-
-<h2>The double-whammy</h2>
-
-<p>From one side, we see groups (Fraunhofer, IBM, Thomson, Progressive
- Networks, Microsoft et al.) trying to control music technological
- infrastructure (MPEG, TwinVQ, etc) to be used as weaponry against
- their competitors. On the other front, we have the music industry
- trying to squeeze all the cash they can out of the content to maintain
- their enormous, recently obsolete bulk. In case they don't succeed in
- eliminating electronic music formats, they too are making a major bid
- to control the infrastructure.</p>
-
-
-<p>There are multi-trillion dollar interests represented in the above
- clash. Businesses that only have a few million dollars are entirely
- outclassed.</p>
-
-<p>As an individual, I expect I'm no longer on the map.</p>
-
-<p>Or am I? Ogg and other projects of Xiph.Org are my way of doing
- something about the imbalance; a good programmer can still change the
- world. Big players may want to utterly dominate the Net, but they
- don't yet. If the rest of us are lucky, Xiph.Org, the Open Source
- community and Ogg will help make that impossible.</p>
-
-<p>—Monty (<a href="mailto:monty at xiph.org">monty at xiph.org</a>)<br/>
-May 14, 1999</p>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+ <title>Xiph.org: About</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<h1>About Xiph</h1>
+<h2>A little bit about us, what we do, and why you should care</h2>
+<p>A market-speak summary of the Xiph.Org Foundation might read something
+ like: "Xiph.Org is a collection of <a href="http://www.opensource.org">open source</a>, multimedia-related
+ projects. The most aggressive effort works to put the foundation standards of
+ Internet audio and video into the public domain, <em>where all Internet standards
+ belong</em>." ...and that last bit is where the passion comes in.</p>
+
+<p>Xiph.Org is about open source and the ideals for which free
+ software stands. Open source is not a fad any more than the Internet
+ is. It is a necessary force driving innovation and the Internet
+ forward while protecting the interests of individuals, artists,
+ developers and consumers.</p>
+
+<p>We're about bringing open source and open source ideals to
+ multimedia...and media on the Internet needs us.</p>
+
+<h2>"Why do I need open source? I'm not a hacker."</h2>
+
+<p>Closed source software is not evil, nor is it necessarily inferior in
+ quality to open source. What is certain, however, is that closed
+ source and closed protocols do not serve the public interest; they
+ exist by definition to serve the bottom line of a corporation. The
+ foundations of the Internet today are built of a long, hardy history
+ of open development, free exchange of ideas and unprecedented levels
+ of intellectual cooperation. These foundations continue to weather
+ the storm caused by the corporate world's rush to cash in.
+</p>
+<p>It is not a coincidence that Microsoft was blind to the phenomenon of
+ the Internet for so long. The burgeoning Internet was against their
+ very way of thinking; a Microsoft Internet (tm) would have been
+ profit-directed, designed by the same people who considered 'on-demand
+ TV' the great innovation of the future. Microsoft Internet, if
+ profitable, would have been followed by the release of IBM's
+ marginally compatible OS/Internet, Borland's TurboInternet, ad
+ absurdum. The Net, as designed by warring corporate entities, would
+ be a battleground of incompatible and expensive 'standards' had it
+ actually survived at all.</p>
+
+<p>The Internet exists today and continues to move forward
+ <em>despite</em>, not because of, corporate self-interest; critical
+ mass passed the point of no return long before Microsoft and Netscape
+ tried to salt the earth of their rivals. The great advances in
+ computer engineering and science came from research labs and
+ universities, freely shared with the rest of the world. You would not
+ be reading this at your PC, workstation or iMac today if Microsoft
+ held a patent on TCP/IP. </p>
+
+<p>The point is not that companies that try to make money on the new
+ popularity of the net are in some way inherently immoral or greedy.
+ Rather, the point is that companies must not be allowed to use the
+ infrastructure we all depend upon as a weapon against their rivals to
+ the detriment of all others. The Internet is a common resource and as
+ with other cooperatively shared resources, the "Tragedy of the
+ Commons" looms large. Competitive behavior dictates that eventually a
+ company will act on their own interests to the detriment of all others
+ <em>unless a mechanism exists to prevent it</em>.</p>
+
+<p>Commodity standards and software must be free because open source is
+ that controlling mechanism. We're the only mechanism we've got.</p>
+
+<h2 id='fraunhofer' style='margin-bottom: 0;'>"Why does multimedia specifically need open source?"</h2>
+<h3 style='margin-top: 0;'>Example: An 'open' standard closes</h3>
+
+<p>In September of 1998, the world of Internet media took an unexpected
+(but long dreaded) turn when Fraunhofer IIS sent a "letter of
+infringement" to several small commercial and open source MPEG audio
+layer 3 development projects.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+ <p>In the letter, [Fraunhofer claims] that due to patents
+ they hold related to MP3, they are entitled to
+ royalties for any commercial players, all encoders
+ (whether sold or <strong>given away</strong>), and
+ also works of art sold in MP3 format.</p>
+
+ <p>The letter of infringement had an immediate effect on
+ the free encoder programs with many being removed from
+ their official web site. Affected encoders include
+ Plugger, CDEX, soloH, 8Hz, Blade, Canna, and
+ others. [...] Fraunhofer is demanding a royalty
+ payment beginning at $25 per encoder. Additionally, a
+ 1% or .01 per file royalty is also put forth as being
+ required.</p>
+ <p>—mp3.com article by Michael Robertson</p>
+ <!-- formerly http://www.mp3.com/news/095.html -->
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>The projects affected had based their work on code long freely
+ available in the ISO MPEG audio standard. The debate about whether or
+ not Fraunhofer was within their rights or not is beside the point;
+ this is an illustration of the amount of control commercial entities
+ will attempt to exert over commodity standards; this meddling is
+ detrimental to open efforts and deadly to business (except for members
+ of the MPEG consortium that is). Keep in mind that MPEG is considered
+ among the <em>most</em> open multimedia standards (at least until the
+ 800-lb. gorilla members of MPEG manage to sue the smaller encoder
+ efforts out of existence); there are few or no cutting-edge open
+ standards for streamed audio or video on the Internet today. Closed
+ competition has just made matters worse; now there are several
+ dominant and entirely incompatible closed 'standards'.</p>
+
+<p>Our purpose is to open the field up a bit. Unfortunately we're not
+ fighting on this front alone. Music and media on the net today also
+ face corporate domination of the <em>content itself </em>...</p>
+
+<h2>Music isn't an <em>art</em>, it's an <em>industry</em>.</h2>
+
+<p>Internet media issues don't apply solely to source code or information
+ format. Controlling the music itself is a burning issue for the music
+ industry.</p>
+
+<p>—and <em>industry</em> is the key word here. Music is no longer an
+ expression of the soul or the work of an artist; it's a 'product' that
+ is manufactured, packaged, catalogued, distributed, managed,
+ regulated, and above all <em>sold</em>. Music is just another vehicle for
+ maximizing profits. The RIAA, mainly a front for the recording
+ industry that supports the status quo, trumpets loudly that the
+ Internet is the greatest threat to artists that the world has ever
+ known... at the same time that the RIAA is making a desperate grab to
+ control this new distribution infrastructure. The great irony is that
+ the Internet might indeed be an artist's worst nightmare-- if the RIAA
+ <em>succeeds</em>:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+ <p>...corporate mergers are squeezing hundreds of
+ musicians out of the business without even giving
+ them the rights to their recordings, and executives
+ of major record labels are meeting behind closed
+ doors to develop a way to police and control the
+ distribution of music on the Internet.<br/>
+ [...]<br/>
+ Putting control of the Internet in the hands of the
+ corporations means that a utopian musical vision may
+ be dying. ...the chances of a dystopian world are
+ increasing, one in which record companies have even
+ greater control over music distribution</p>
+
+ <p>--the New York Times, Monday, May 17, 1999, article by Neil Strauss</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>One major push in the RIAA effort to control the music distribution
+ infrastructure of the Internet is to legislate mandatory 'digital
+ watermarks' for playback. Players that do not look for these
+ 'watermarks' or play the music anyway will be illegal. Make an
+ educated guess as to who will control the watermarks.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+ <p>the record industry has a plan to force
+ hardware and software companies to exclusively
+ adopt its Secure Digital Music Initiative as
+ the standard for delivering music online.
+ ...SDMI backers want manufacturers to build a
+ time-bomb trigger into their products that,
+ when activated at a later date, would prevent
+ users from downloading or playing
+ non-SDMI-compliant music. The hardware would
+ initially support MP3 and other compressed
+ file formats, but a signal from the RIAA would
+ activate the blocking trigger.</p>
+
+ <p>--<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19682.html">Wired News article by Christopher Jones</a></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h2>a history lesson</h2>
+
+<p>The current position and function of the music industry is an
+ invented one. Approximately one lifetime ago, recordings were not
+ technologically possible. With the advent of recorded sound,
+ enterprising businessmen (Thomas Edison, a worthy predecessor of Bill
+ Gates, and Columbia Music, just as tough and nasty) found that
+ prepackaged recordings could be turned out in endless, identical
+ quantity for very little cost and sold. </p>
+
+<p>This wasn't an entirely new idea; an example of a preceding 'packaged
+ performance' technology is the player piano roll. It is interesting
+ to note, however, that these rolls were held by the courts to be
+ <em>uncopyrightable</em>; the music itself was protected, but the
+ 'performance' was not. The music industry originally lobbied the
+ courts and Congress to keep these formats copyright-free so that it
+ would not owe artists any royalties; in 1908, the Supreme Court ruled
+ that phonograph records and player piano rolls did not fall under
+ copyright.</p>
+
+<p>It is important to note that selling recordings was a tenable business
+ plan only because the average person could not produce a recording.
+ If the phonograph record were cheaply reproducible in that day, the
+ prepackaged music industry would never have existed as it would have
+ been impossible from the very beginning to prevent people from making
+ copies which were, at the time, entirely legal.</p>
+
+<p>Congress changed the copyright law in 1909 to explicitly grant
+ composers royalties on recordings sold. At the time, the music
+ industry protested the decision bitterly; eventually it settled for
+ requiring artists to sign over copyright on all work as a standard
+ element of a recording contract.</p>
+
+<p>The copyright protects the record label, not the artist.</p>
+
+<p>(<a href="http://www.news.com.com/SpecialFeatures/0,5,34963,00.html">an article on the subject from CNET</a>)</p>
+
+<h2>Fast forward to the 1970s</h2>
+
+<p>The undoing of the distribution profit juggernaut began with the
+ compact cassette tape, a development greeted by as much wailing and
+ gnashing of teeth within the walls of Music Inc. as MP3 is causing
+ today. Although the copy wasn't as good as the original, it was cheap
+ and easy to make. Copying commercial music was once only the domain
+ of organized crime; now any individual could make a copy trivially.
+ The industry tried to outlaw the compact cassette, then settled for
+ taxing it and legislating against copying.</p>
+
+<p>Digital audio tape (DAT) caused the next uproar; a perfect copy was
+ now possible. The music industry players, forerunners to the RIAA,
+ sought to destroy this technology and mostly succeeded; DAT never
+ caught on at any sizable level. It is interesting to note that
+ "small-time" artists depend heavily on DAT for production and
+ recording; this is practically the only music segment that ever bought
+ into DAT. Clearly the RIAA didn't have their interests at heart.</p>
+
+<p>Computers, the Internet and especially MP3 have now made the copy
+ easier, cheaper and more convenient than the prepackaged content on
+ sale.</p>
+
+<p>That the copy costs nothing concerns intellectual property, a real
+ worry for artists. That the <em>distribution</em> costs nothing is
+ what really motivates the anti-MP3/anti-Internet effort. Copyright,
+ once bitterly contested by the music industry, is now clung to as a
+ weapon to preserve the distribution chain.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+ <p>Copyright law has always been more about protecting
+ the interests of publishers than those of creators.
+ The Internet in general, and MP3 in particular, have
+ drastically reduced the costs (financial,
+ convenience, material, distribution) of creators
+ getting their material out to their audience, and
+ have *almost* made it trivial for audience members
+ to *directly* pay creators for access to their work.</p>
+
+ <p>The middlemen have become irrelevant. The smart
+ ones are devising new business models --- O'Reilly
+ isn't going away because they are perceived as
+ genuinely adding value and lots of their customers
+ would buy their books even if they're available for
+ download.</p>
+
+ <p>I just paid $20 for Neal Stephenson's new book; he
+ probably got about $3 of my money, if that. The
+ other $17 went to the distribution chain, of which
+ *maybe* $1 goes to people who actually contributed
+ to the book --- editors who actually edited,
+ proofreaders, etc.</p>
+
+ <p>Eventually, a favorite author will release a new
+ novel and I will pay $5, of which the majority will
+ go to the author and all but a few pennies to other
+ real contributors, for access to it with rights to
+ print one copy.</p>
+
+ <p>The middlemen are merely fighting a rearguard action
+ against the tide of history; a delaying action that
+ may alter *when* I will buy a book that way, but not
+ the ultimate reality.</p>
+
+ <p>—Carl Alexander <a href="mailto:xela at mit.edu"><xela at mit.edu></a></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>The music industry finds itself in a position where the basic
+ assumption behind its original business model (the recording is too
+ expensive for a person to reproduce him or herself and the
+ distribution can be tightly controlled for maximal profit) is no
+ longer true. The music industry feels extremely threatened. It
+ should. This is a major evolutionary pressure.</p>
+
+<p>Evolutionary? Of course; commercial music is faced with extinction
+ only as long as it refuses to adapt, as long as it refuses to loosen
+ its grip on the endless easy profits it believes it is entitled to.
+ The industry is not acting to protect artists or the artists'
+ interests (bards, musicians and storytellers thrived long before there
+ was an industry to 'protect' them), it is not acting to prevent
+ musicians from being 'driven out of business' (it impoverishes artists
+ itself); it is acting to preserve the status quo and its own
+ profit-inflated bulk. It's quite possible for the music industry to
+ refashion itself, but rather than evolving and thriving in a new
+ niche, the Dinosaurs, staggering under their own smothering weight,
+ are trying to legislate the Mammals out of existence.</p>
+
+<h2>The double-whammy</h2>
+
+<p>From one side, we see groups (Fraunhofer, IBM, Thomson, Progressive
+ Networks, Microsoft et al.) trying to control music technological
+ infrastructure (MPEG, TwinVQ, etc) to be used as weaponry against
+ their competitors. On the other front, we have the music industry
+ trying to squeeze all the cash they can out of the content to maintain
+ their enormous, recently obsolete bulk. In case they don't succeed in
+ eliminating electronic music formats, they too are making a major bid
+ to control the infrastructure.</p>
+
+
+<p>There are multi-trillion dollar interests represented in the above
+ clash. Businesses that only have a few million dollars are entirely
+ outclassed.</p>
+
+<p>As an individual, I expect I'm no longer on the map.</p>
+
+<p>Or am I? Ogg and other projects of Xiph.Org are my way of doing
+ something about the imbalance; a good programmer can still change the
+ world. Big players may want to utterly dominate the Net, but they
+ don't yet. If the rest of us are lucky, Xiph.Org, the Open Source
+ community and Ogg will help make that impossible.</p>
+
+<p>—Monty (<a href="mailto:monty at xiph.org">monty at xiph.org</a>)<br/>
+May 14, 1999</p>
+
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-<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
- <title>Xiph.org: Contact Information</title>
-<style type="text/css">
-<!--
-
-.vcard {
- padding-bottom: 1.2em;
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-
-.irc {
- font-family: monospace;
- font-size: 120%;
-}
-
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-</style>
-<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
-<!-- All your page content goes here -->
-
-<h1>Getting in touch</h1>
-<p>
-The best way to contact members of the Xiph.org Foundation and community
-is to post to one of the <a
-href="http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/">mailing lists</a> or find
-us on IRC on <a href="http://freenode.net/">irc.freenode.net</a>.
-Try the channels <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/xiph">#xiph</a> for general information, or the
-general project channels: <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/vorbis">#vorbis</a>, <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/theora">#theora</a>,
-<a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/icecast">#icecast</a> and <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/speex">#speex</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Below are some point contacts for particular people in the organization.
-</p>
-
-<div class="vcard">
- <a class="email fn" href="mailto:webmaster at xiph.org">Webmaster</a>
- <div class="role"><span>contact for website-related issues</span></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="vcard">
- <a class="email fn" href="mailto:monty at xiph.org">Christopher Montgomery</a>
- <div class="role"><span>Founder</span> and <span>Executive Contact</span></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="vcard">
- <a class="email fn" href="mailto:manuel at xiph.org">Manuel Lora</a>
- <div class="role"><span>Project Manager</span></div>
-</div>
-
-<div class="vcard">
- <a class="email fn" href="mailto:trosedale at brllegal.com">Tom Rosedale</a>
- <div class="role"><span>Legal Counsel</span></div>
- <div class="org"><a class="url" href="http://www.brllegal.com/">Browne, Rosedale, & Lanouette LLP</a></div>
-</div>
-
-<!-- The hcard format http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCard
-<div class="vcard">
- <a class="email fn" href="mailto:"></a>
- <div class="role"><span></span></div>
-</div>
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-
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+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+ <title>Xiph.org: Contact Information</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+<!--
+
+.vcard {
+ padding-bottom: 1.2em;
+}
+
+.irc {
+ font-family: monospace;
+ font-size: 120%;
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+
+-->
+</style>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<h1>Getting in touch</h1>
+<p>
+The best way to contact members of the Xiph.org Foundation and community
+is to post to one of the <a
+href="http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/">mailing lists</a> or find
+us on IRC on <a href="http://freenode.net/">irc.freenode.net</a>.
+Try the channels <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/xiph">#xiph</a> for general information, or the
+general project channels: <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/vorbis">#vorbis</a>, <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/theora">#theora</a>,
+<a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/icecast">#icecast</a> and <a class="irc" href="irc://irc.freenode.net/speex">#speex</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Below are some point contacts for particular people in the organization.
+</p>
+
+<div class="vcard">
+ <a class="email fn" href="mailto:webmaster at xiph.org">Webmaster</a>
+ <div class="role"><span>contact for website-related issues</span></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="vcard">
+ <a class="email fn" href="mailto:monty at xiph.org">Christopher Montgomery</a>
+ <div class="role"><span>Founder</span> and <span>Executive Contact</span></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="vcard">
+ <a class="email fn" href="mailto:manuel at xiph.org">Manuel Lora</a>
+ <div class="role"><span>Project Manager</span></div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="vcard">
+ <a class="email fn" href="mailto:trosedale at brllegal.com">Tom Rosedale</a>
+ <div class="role"><span>Legal Counsel</span></div>
+ <div class="org"><a class="url" href="http://www.brllegal.com/">Browne, Rosedale, & Lanouette LLP</a></div>
+</div>
+
+<!-- The hcard format http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/hCard
+<div class="vcard">
+ <a class="email fn" href="mailto:"></a>
+ <div class="role"><span></span></div>
+</div>
+-->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
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- <title>Xiph.org: Fundraising</title>
-<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
-<!-- All your page content goes here -->
-
-<p>If you can afford to donate some money and want to support the Xiph.org Foundation, you may do so via Paypal by clicking on the icon below.</p>
-
-<p style='text-align: center;'>
- <a href="https://secure.paypal.com/xclick/business=donate@xiph.org&item_name=Donation&item_number=DONATE&return=http://www.xiph.org"><img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/lgo/logo3.gif" alt="paypal logo"/></a>
-</p>
-
-<p>You can also send a check or money order to:</p><br/>
-<div style="text-align: center;">
-<b>Xiph.org Foundation</b><br/>
-c/o Jack Moffitt, Treasurer<br/>
-1408 Adams St. NE<br/>
-Albuquerque, NM 87110</div>
-<br/>
-
-<p>
- Note that as of March 24, 2003, Xiph.Org is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit
- Organization according to the United States
- <abbr title='Internal Revenue Service'>IRS</abbr>, so donations to Xiph.Org
- from US entities
- are tax-deductible. If you have any further questions
- or would like to set up a Xiph.org chapter in your tax
- jurisdiction, please contact
- Jack Moffitt at <a href='mailto:jack at xiph.org'>jack at xiph.org</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Further, Xiph
-<a href="http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=oggwear">merchandise</a>
-is on sale from <a href="http://www.cafeshops.com">Cafeshops</a>;
-the margin from the sales help support the Xiph.org Foundation.
-</p>
-
-<p>Your contribution is greatly appreciated!</p>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+ <title>Xiph.org: Fundraising</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<p>If you can afford to donate some money and want to support the Xiph.org Foundation, you may do so via Paypal by clicking on the icon below.</p>
+
+<p style='text-align: center;'>
+ <a href="https://secure.paypal.com/xclick/business=donate@xiph.org&item_name=Donation&item_number=DONATE&return=http://www.xiph.org"><img src="http://www.paypal.com/images/lgo/logo3.gif" alt="paypal logo"/></a>
+</p>
+
+<p>You can also send a check or money order to:</p><br/>
+<div style="text-align: center;">
+<b>Xiph.org Foundation</b><br/>
+c/o Jack Moffitt, Treasurer<br/>
+1408 Adams St. NE<br/>
+Albuquerque, NM 87110</div>
+<br/>
+
+<p>
+ Note that as of March 24, 2003, Xiph.Org is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit
+ Organization according to the United States
+ <abbr title='Internal Revenue Service'>IRS</abbr>, so donations to Xiph.Org
+ from US entities
+ are tax-deductible. If you have any further questions
+ or would like to set up a Xiph.org chapter in your tax
+ jurisdiction, please contact
+ Jack Moffitt at <a href='mailto:jack at xiph.org'>jack at xiph.org</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Further, Xiph
+<a href="http://www.cafeshops.com/cp/store.aspx?s=oggwear">merchandise</a>
+is on sale from <a href="http://www.cafeshops.com">Cafeshops</a>;
+the margin from the sales help support the Xiph.org Foundation.
+</p>
+
+<p>Your contribution is greatly appreciated!</p>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
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-<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
- <title>Xiph.org: Downloads</title>
-<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
-<!-- All your page content goes here -->
-
-<h1>End-User Downloads</h1>
-
-<p>
-Xiph.org does not primarily create software for the end-user.
-Usually, we create specifications, reference implementations, libraries,
-and documentation for all of the above. We try to make it easy for
-developers to include support for the xiph family of codecs. The following
-end-user download links are provided for convenience:
-</p>
-
-<ul style="margin-bottom: 2.5em; line-height: 1.4;">
- <li><a href="http://www.vorbis.com/setup/">Vorbis</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html">FLAC</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.speex.org/download.html">Speex</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.icecast.org/download.php">Icecast</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<h1>Developer Downloads</h1>
-
-<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #cccccc; line-height: 1.4;">
-
-<tr style="font-weight: bold;">
-<td>Library</td>
-<td>Stable Version</td>
-<td>Download Link</td>
-<td>Size</td>
-<td>md5</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>libogg</td>
-<td>1.1.2</td>
-<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz">libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz</a><br/>
- <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.zip">libogg-1.1.2.zip</a></td>
-<td>410K<br/>
- 509K</td>
-<td>4d82996517bf33bb912c97e9d0b635c4<br/>
- 5648d5f08f6012cded19d0e3a60ead39</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>libvorbis</td>
-<td>1.1.1</td>
-<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.1.tar.gz">libvorbis-1.1.1.tar.gz</a><br/>
- <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.1.zip">libvorbis-1.1.1.zip</a></td>
-<td>1.2M<br/>
- 1.4M</td>
-<td>b77270c24840af4de54bea5ad1c0b252<br/>
- 66529719d92a9835a98877901eb961b2</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>vorbis-tools</td>
-<td>1.1.1</td>
-<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/vorbis-tools-1.1.1.tar.gz">vorbis-tools-1.1.1.tar.gz</a><br/>
- <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/vorbis-tools-1.1.1.zip">vorbis-tools-1.1.1.zip</a></td>
-<td>927K<br/>
- 1.1K</td>
-<td>47845fd76f5f2354a3619c4097575487<br/>
- 0decca1643848f5784915e1e279ca14e</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>libtheora</td>
-<td>1.0alpha5</td>
-<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz">libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz</a><br/>
- <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip">libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip</a></td>
-<td>1.8M<br/>
- 1.9M</td>
-<td>5add710b80b1cd8f3db9867d1fc9d151<br/>
- aa471d76d2c245407752935b20cfc67f</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>libspeex</td>
-<td>1.0.5</td>
-<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/speex-1.0.5.tar.gz">speex-1.0.5.tar.gz</a></td>
-<td>534K</td>
-<td>01d6a2de0a88a861304bf517615dea79</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>libflac</td>
-<td>1.1.2</td>
-<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.1.2.tar.gz">flac-1.1.2.tar.gz</a></td>
-<td>1.4M</td>
-<td>2bfc127cdda02834d0491ab531a20960</td>
-</tr>
-
-</table>
-
-<p>You may also <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/">browse</a>
-the download directory if you are looking for another library or
-for a specific version.</p>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+ <title>Xiph.org: Downloads</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<h1>End-User Downloads</h1>
+
+<p>
+Xiph.org does not primarily create software for the end-user.
+Usually, we create specifications, reference implementations, libraries,
+and documentation for all of the above. We try to make it easy for
+developers to include support for the xiph family of codecs. The following
+end-user download links are provided for convenience:
+</p>
+
+<ul style="margin-bottom: 2.5em; line-height: 1.4;">
+ <li><a href="http://www.vorbis.com/setup/">Vorbis</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html">FLAC</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.theora.org/">Theora</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.speex.org/download.html">Speex</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.icecast.org/download.php">Icecast</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<h1>Developer Downloads</h1>
+
+<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #cccccc; line-height: 1.4;">
+
+<tr style="font-weight: bold;">
+<td>Library</td>
+<td>Stable Version</td>
+<td>Download Link</td>
+<td>Size</td>
+<td>md5</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>libogg</td>
+<td>1.1.2</td>
+<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz">libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz</a><br/>
+ <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.zip">libogg-1.1.2.zip</a></td>
+<td>410K<br/>
+ 509K</td>
+<td>4d82996517bf33bb912c97e9d0b635c4<br/>
+ 5648d5f08f6012cded19d0e3a60ead39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>libvorbis</td>
+<td>1.1.1</td>
+<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.1.tar.gz">libvorbis-1.1.1.tar.gz</a><br/>
+ <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.1.zip">libvorbis-1.1.1.zip</a></td>
+<td>1.2M<br/>
+ 1.4M</td>
+<td>b77270c24840af4de54bea5ad1c0b252<br/>
+ 66529719d92a9835a98877901eb961b2</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>vorbis-tools</td>
+<td>1.1.1</td>
+<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/vorbis-tools-1.1.1.tar.gz">vorbis-tools-1.1.1.tar.gz</a><br/>
+ <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/vorbis-tools-1.1.1.zip">vorbis-tools-1.1.1.zip</a></td>
+<td>927K<br/>
+ 1.1K</td>
+<td>47845fd76f5f2354a3619c4097575487<br/>
+ 0decca1643848f5784915e1e279ca14e</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>libtheora</td>
+<td>1.0alpha5</td>
+<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz">libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz</a><br/>
+ <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip">libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip</a></td>
+<td>1.8M<br/>
+ 1.9M</td>
+<td>5add710b80b1cd8f3db9867d1fc9d151<br/>
+ aa471d76d2c245407752935b20cfc67f</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>libspeex</td>
+<td>1.0.5</td>
+<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/speex/speex-1.0.5.tar.gz">speex-1.0.5.tar.gz</a></td>
+<td>534K</td>
+<td>01d6a2de0a88a861304bf517615dea79</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>libflac</td>
+<td>1.1.2</td>
+<td><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.1.2.tar.gz">flac-1.1.2.tar.gz</a></td>
+<td>1.4M</td>
+<td>2bfc127cdda02834d0491ab531a20960</td>
+</tr>
+
+</table>
+
+<p>You may also <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/">browse</a>
+the download directory if you are looking for another library or
+for a specific version.</p>
+
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- <p style="font-size: 1.17em;">The <span class="xiph">Xiph.Org Foundation</span> is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.</p>
- <h1>Xiph in the News</h1>
-
- <ul class="newslist">
- <li><a href="http://fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">Fluendo funds RTP delivery effort for Xiph.org free multimedia codecs.</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">Speex Goes 1.0; Xiph.Org now a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization</a></li>
- <li><b><a href="http://fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">more headlines ></a></b></li>
- </ul>
-
- <div class="xiphbanners">
- <a href="http://vorbis.com/">
- <img class="vorbisbanner" src="images/banners/vorbis_banner.png" alt="Vorbis Banner" />
- </a>
- <img class="xiphbanner" src="images/banners/xiph_banner.png" alt="Xiph Banner" />
- </div>
- <p style="text-align: center; width: 461px; margin-top: 0; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-size: .75em;">In our effort to bring open-source ideals to the world of multimedia, the <b>Xiph.Org Foundation</b> and its open-source community develops a multitude of amazing products.</p>
-
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-
- <div class="resources">
- <div class="containers" style="padding-left: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; float: right; width: 50%;">
- <h3>Container Formats</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/ogg/">Ogg:</a> Media container. This is our native format and the recommended container for all Xiph codecs.</li>
- <li><a href="#">Speex RTP:</a> RTP payload format for voice</li>
- <li><a href="#">Vorbis RTP:</a> RTP payload format for audio</li>
- <li><a href="#">Theora RTP:</a> RTP payload format for video</li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- <div class="distribsoft">
- <h3>Software for Distributing Media</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/paranoia/">CD Paranoia</a> Robust CD audio extraction </li>
- <li><a href="http://icecast.org/">Icecast:</a> Streaming server</li>
- <li><a href="http://icecast.org/ices.php">Ices:</a> Source client for Icecast Server</li>
- <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/IceShare">IceShare:</a> P2P for content distribution</li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- <div class="codecs">
- <h3>Codecs</h3>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="/vorbis/">Vorbis:</a> Audio codec</li>
- <li><a href="/vorbis/">Tremor:</a> Fixed-point decoder</li>
- <li><a href="http://theora.org/">Theora:</a> Video codec</li>
- <li><a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net">FLAC:</a> Free Lossless Audio Codec</li>
- <li><a href="http://speex.org/">Speex:</a> Speech codec</li>
- <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/OggWrit">OggWrit:</a> Text phrase codec (subtitles)</li>
- <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/Metadata">Ogg Metadata:</a> Arbitratry metadata format</li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- </div>
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+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+ <p style="font-size: 1.17em;">The <span class="xiph">Xiph.Org Foundation</span> is a non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Our purpose is to support and develop free, open protocols and software to serve the public, developer and business markets.</p>
+ <h1>Xiph in the News</h1>
+
+ <ul class="newslist">
+ <li><a href="http://fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">Fluendo funds RTP delivery effort for Xiph.org free multimedia codecs.</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">Speex Goes 1.0; Xiph.Org now a 501(c)3 Non-Profit Organization</a></li>
+ <li><b><a href="http://fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">more headlines ></a></b></li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <div class="xiphbanners">
+ <a href="http://vorbis.com/">
+ <img class="vorbisbanner" src="images/banners/vorbis_banner.png" alt="Vorbis Banner" />
+ </a>
+ <img class="xiphbanner" src="images/banners/xiph_banner.png" alt="Xiph Banner" />
+ </div>
+ <p style="text-align: center; width: 461px; margin-top: 0; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; font-size: .75em;">In our effort to bring open-source ideals to the world of multimedia, the <b>Xiph.Org Foundation</b> and its open-source community develops a multitude of amazing products.</p>
+
+ <h1 id="resources">Resources by Project</h1>
+
+ <div class="resources">
+ <div class="containers" style="padding-left: 1em; padding-bottom: 1em; float: right; width: 50%;">
+ <h3>Container Formats</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/ogg/">Ogg:</a> Media container. This is our native format and the recommended container for all Xiph codecs.</li>
+ <li><a href="#">Speex RTP:</a> RTP payload format for voice</li>
+ <li><a href="#">Vorbis RTP:</a> RTP payload format for audio</li>
+ <li><a href="#">Theora RTP:</a> RTP payload format for video</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="distribsoft">
+ <h3>Software for Distributing Media</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/paranoia/">CD Paranoia</a> Robust CD audio extraction </li>
+ <li><a href="http://icecast.org/">Icecast:</a> Streaming server</li>
+ <li><a href="http://icecast.org/ices.php">Ices:</a> Source client for Icecast Server</li>
+ <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/IceShare">IceShare:</a> P2P for content distribution</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ <div class="codecs">
+ <h3>Codecs</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="/vorbis/">Vorbis:</a> Audio codec</li>
+ <li><a href="/vorbis/">Tremor:</a> Fixed-point decoder</li>
+ <li><a href="http://theora.org/">Theora:</a> Video codec</li>
+ <li><a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net">FLAC:</a> Free Lossless Audio Codec</li>
+ <li><a href="http://speex.org/">Speex:</a> Speech codec</li>
+ <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/OggWrit">OggWrit:</a> Text phrase codec (subtitles)</li>
+ <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/Metadata">Ogg Metadata:</a> Arbitratry metadata format</li>
+ </ul>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+
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-As with most container formats it encapsulates raw compressed
-data and allows the interleaving of audio and video data inside
-a single convient format. Other examples of container formats
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-In addition to encapsulation and interleave of multiple data
-streams, Ogg provides packet framing, error detection,
-and periodic timestamps for seeking, and in a small, bounded
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-</p>
-
-<p>
-Ogg is a stream oriented container, meaning it can be written
-and read in one pass, making it a natural fit for internet
-streaming and use in processing pipelines. This stream orientation
-is the major design difference over other file-based container
-formats.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Documentation</h2>
-
-<p>Technical documentation on the Ogg container is available for the
-following areas:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="/ogg/doc/oggstream.html">General structural overview</a></li>
-<li><a href="/ogg/doc/framing.html">Detailed header and parsing specification</a></li>
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-RFCs:</p>
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-<li><a href="/ogg/doc/rfc3533.txt">RFC 3533</a> The Ogg Encapsulation Format Version 0
-(<a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3533.txt">IETF mirror</a>)</li>
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-(<a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3534.txt">IETF mirror</a>)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-
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+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
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+<title>Xiph.org: Ogg</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<h1>The Ogg container format</h1>
+
+<p>
+Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file
+and steam format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs. As
+with all Xiph.org technology is it an open format free
+for anyone to use.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As with most container formats it encapsulates raw compressed
+data and allows the interleaving of audio and video data inside
+a single convient format. Other examples of container formats
+are Quicktime <tt>.mov</tt>, the MPEG program stream, and AVI.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In addition to encapsulation and interleave of multiple data
+streams, Ogg provides packet framing, error detection,
+and periodic timestamps for seeking, and in a small, bounded
+percentage bitrate overhead.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Ogg is a stream oriented container, meaning it can be written
+and read in one pass, making it a natural fit for internet
+streaming and use in processing pipelines. This stream orientation
+is the major design difference over other file-based container
+formats.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Documentation</h2>
+
+<p>Technical documentation on the Ogg container is available for the
+following areas:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="/ogg/doc/oggstream.html">General structural overview</a></li>
+<li><a href="/ogg/doc/framing.html">Detailed header and parsing specification</a></li>
+<li><a href="/ogg/doc/ogg-multiplex.html">Issues and practices for multiplexed Ogg streams</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The recommended MIME type for Ogg files and network streams is
+<tt>application/ogg</tt>.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="/ogg/doc/libogg/">API Documentation for the libogg reference implementation</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The Ogg bitstream format is also documented in the following IETF
+RFCs:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="/ogg/doc/rfc3533.txt">RFC 3533</a> The Ogg Encapsulation Format Version 0
+(<a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3533.txt">IETF mirror</a>)</li>
+<li><a href="/ogg/doc/rfc3534.txt">RFC 3534</a> The application/ogg Media Type
+(<a href="http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc3534.txt">IETF mirror</a>)</li>
+</ul>
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+<!--
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+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/xiphbar.include" -->
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-
-<b>This is where your page content goes.</b>
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+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+ <title>page title</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<b>This is where your page content goes.</b>
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-<h1>Theora FAQ</h1>
-
-<h2><a href="#what">What is Theora</a></h2>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="#10">What is Theora?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#11">Why use Theora?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#12">What other video formats will Theora compete with?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#13">What is Ogg? What is Vorbis? What is xiph.org?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#14">What is the license for Theora?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#15">Why the name 'Theora?'</a></li>
-</ul>
-<h2><a href="#VP3">Theora and VP3</a></h2>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="#20">Is the Theora bitstream identical to VP3? </a></li>
- <li><a href="#21">What can Theora do that VP3 couldn't do? </a></li>
- <li><a href="#22">How will I transition my old VP3 files to the new format?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#23">Can I convert Ogg Theora files into VP3?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#24">Isn't VP3 a patented technology? </a></li>
- <li><a href="#25">What if Xiph.org and On2 decide to break off their agreement? </a></li>
-</ul>
-<h2><a href="#development">Development</a></h2>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="#30">When will it all be finished? Can I use it right now?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#31">What is an Alpha Release?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#32">What is Tarkin? </a></li>
- <li><a href="#33">How can I help with development?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#34">How will Ogg Theora interoperate with [insert your favorite media architecture]?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#35">How can I donate to these amazing projects?</a></li>
-</ul>
-<h2><a href="#working"><b>Using Theora</b></a></h2>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="#40">What players currently support Theora?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#41">How can I encode videos to Theora?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#42">Is there any way to use Theora on Microsoft Windows at this point?</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<a href="#misc"><b>Misc and Credits</b></a>
-<ul>
- <li><a href="#50">Who's in charge of Theora development?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#53">Who maintains The Glorious Theora FAQ?</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Last update 2005 August 13 by Ralph Giles.</p>
-
-<h1><a name="what"></a>What is Theora</h1>
-
-<a name="10"></a>
-<h2>Q. What is Theora?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>Theora is an <strong>open</strong> video codec being developed by the
-Xiph.org Foundation as part of their Ogg project (It is a project that aims to
-integrate On2's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP3">VP3</a>
-video codec, Ogg <a href="http://www.vorbis.com/">Vorbis</a> audio codec
-and Ogg multimedia container formats into a multimedia solution that can
-compete with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4">MPEG-4</a> format).
-Theora is derived directly
-from On2's VP3 codec; currently the two are nearly identical, varying
-only in framing headers, but Theora will diverge and improve from
-the main VP3 development lineage as time progresses.
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-</div>
-
-<a name="11"></a>
-<h2>Q. Why use Theora?</h2>
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-It's open and free. Do you need more reasons?
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<a name="12"></a>
-<h2>Q. What other video formats will Theora compete with?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Theora is targeted at competing with MPEG-4 (e.g., XviD and DivX),
-RealVideo, Windows Media Video, and similar lower-bitrate video
-compression schemes.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<a name="13"></a>
-<h2>Q. What is Ogg? What is Vorbis? What is Xiph.org?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p><a href="http://www.vorbis.com/">Vorbis</a> is an audio codec,
-Theora is a video codec. Ogg is the transport layer that both are stored in,
-so a video file will be Theora-encoded data inside an Ogg file, while audio
-is normally Vorbis-encoded data inside an ogg file.
-</p><p>
- The <a href="http://www.xiph.org/">Xiph.org</a> Foundation is a
-Delaware non-profit company devoted to producing, maintaining and
-supporting an open multimedia platform.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<a name="14"></a>
-<h2>Q. What is the license for Theora?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-The Theora reference implementation (like all codecs published by the
-Xiph.org Foundation) is distributed to the public under a
-BSD-style license. It is completely free for commercial or noncommercial
-use. That means that commercial developers may independently write
-Theora software which is compatible with the specification for no charge
-and without restrictions of any kind.
-<p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="15"></a>
-<h2>Q. Why the name 'Theora?'</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin,
-Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of
-Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series
-<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0089568/" class="subtle">Max Headroom</a>.
-She was played by <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0005301/" class="subtle">Amanda Pays</a>.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="VP3"></a>
-<h1>Theora and VP3</h1>
-
-<a name="20"></a>
-<h2>Q. Is the Theora bitstream identical to VP3?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Yes and No. Theora is a superset of VP3, so VP3 streams (with minor
-syntactic modifications) can be made into Theora streams without
-recompression (but not vice versa).
-</p><p>
-Theora is based upon the VP3 codec designed by On2.
-However, in addition to the new featuers, some redundancy was removed
-from the bitstream, so even for VP3-compatible Theora streams, the
-binary packet formats are not identical.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="21"></a>
-<h2>Q. What can Theora do that VP3 couldn't do?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-The major change from VP3 to Theora is architectural. VP3, like most
-codecs of today, makes certain assumptions about the nature of the material
-it compresses. These assumptions take the form of fixed sets of numeric
-values, such as quantization matrices, which control how different
-frequency components of the signal are handled, and token frequency tables,
-which control the efficiency of post-transform lossless coding. In Theora,
-we have leveraged the intrinsic flexibility of the Ogg multimedia framework
-to allow the encoder to modify these values appropriately for the material.
-This simple, powerful approach has already been proven effective in Vorbis,
-and will allow for a longer cycle of encoder optimization without requiring
-client-side updates.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="22"></a>
-<h2>Q. How will I transition my old VP3 files to the new format?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Because Theora is a 'superset' of VP3, tools can easily be created that
-will allow VP3 files to be losslessly transcoded into Ogg Theora format
-with no loss in quality. An example tool is included with the reference
-implementation.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="23"></a>
-<h2>Q. Can I convert Ogg Theora files into VP3?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>Why would you want to do something like that? Are you nuts?</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="24"></a>
-<h2>Q. Isn't VP3 a patented technology?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Yes, some portions of the VP3 codec are covered by patents. However, the
-Xiph.org Foundation has negotiated an irrevocable free license to the VP3
-codec for any purpose imaginable on behalf of the public. It is legal to
-use VP3 in any way you see fit (unless, of course, you're doing something
-illegal with it in your particular jurisdiction). You are free to download
-VP3, use it free of charge, implement it in a for-sale product, implement
-it in a free product, make changes to the source and distribute those
-changes, or print the source code out and wallpaper your spare room with
-it.
-</p><p>
-For more information, check the VP3 Legal Terms on the SVN page.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="25"></a>
-<h2>Q. What if Xiph.org and On2 decide to break off their agreement?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Because Theora is an Open Source project, the source code will continue to
-be available and development will continue. Users will still be protected
-from the On2 patents.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="development"></a>
-<h1>Development </h1>
-
-<a name="30"></a>
-<h2>Q. When will it all be finished? Can I use it right now?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Theora alpha 4 is out and bitstream format was frozen in 2004. So, files
-produced by the alpha 3 and later reference encoder will be supported by
-all future decoders. It's completely ready to use today.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="31"></a>
-<h2>Q. What is an Alpha Release?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Typically when software is created at a software company, it goes
-through a number of stages before it's released out to the world. You've
-probably heard of 'beta-testing' before. That's when people take code
-that has been deemed 'not quite ready' and are testing it out so that
-the authors can fix bugs where necessary.
-</p><p>
-'Alpha' code is strictly for internal development only, which is to
-say, 'No one sees this code, it's not even close to being done yet.' At
-the Xiph.org Foundation, we release everything we do so that people can
-help us move the codebase forward by reporting bugs and submitting patches.
-So, even 'Alpha' code needs to get out to the world.
-</p><p>
-And like many open source projects, our 'alpha' code has in fact been
-very stable since the alpha 3 release and is ready for real use. We're
-still calling it alpha more to indicate that it's not feature complete,
-and that we reserve the right to change some things, not that it's
-buggy.
-</p><p>
-We encourage and depend on the open-source developer community to get
-involved early. We release Alpha builds to give these hearty souls a chance
-to see what's cooking, and perhaps to add some ingredients of their own. If
-you think you have the right stuff, please join the party at
-<a href="http://www.Theora.org/lists">www.Theora.org/lists</a>.
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="32"></a>
-<h2>Q. What is Tarkin?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Tarkin was essentially a proof-of-concept wavelet-based codec. Its
-experimental nature means it will not be ready for general use for some
-time. VP3 is a high-quality codec that can meet today's video needs now, so
-we are focusing our efforts on Theora for the moment.
-<p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="33"></a>
-<h2>Q. How can I help with development?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Head on over to the <a href="http://www.Theora.org/svn.html">SVN</a>
- page to grab the codebase, and hack away! Post your contributions online,
- and tell us about it on the <a href="http://www.Theora.org/lists.html">Theora-dev
-</a> mailing list.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="34"></a>
-<h2>Q. How will Ogg Theora interoperate with [insert your favorite media architecture]?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-As the Ogg Vorbis format has gained acceptance, components have become
-available to play Ogg files on practically all of the major media players.
-We expect a similar if not superior level of support for Ogg Theora.
-Developers wanted! (if you're interested, sign up for the
-Theora-codecs at xiph.org mailing list).
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="35"></a>
-<h2>Q. How can I donate to these amazing projects?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Wow, thanks! You can find more information on donating to the Xiph.org
-Foundation by following <a href="http://www.xiph.org/donate">
-this link</a>! Thanks in advance!
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="working"></a>
-<h1>Using Theora</h1>
-
-<a name="40"></a>
-<h2>Q. What players currently support Theora?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Major players like <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">mplayer</a>,
-<a href="http://www.xinehq.de/">xine</a>, <a
-href="http://www.helixcommunity.org">helix player</a> and <a
-href="http://www.videolan.org/">VideoLAN</a> supports Theora.
-Directshow <a href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">filters</a>
-are also available for use on Windows platform.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="41"></a>
-<h2>Q. How can I encode videos to Theora?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>Have a look at <a
-href="http://www.dogphilosophy.net/SECTION-Technical_Stuff/ogg-theora-microhowto.html">
-ogg-theora-microhowto</a> and <a href="http://www.annodex.net/anx_theora.html">transcode
-</a>quicktime mov files to Theora files under Linux.
-You can use libogg, to wrap theora video with vorbis audio in Ogg
-file.
-</p>
-<p>A user-friendly way to convert .dv and .avi format video into Ogg Theora format is
-with ffmpeg2theora. It can be found at: <a href="http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/">
-http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/</a>
-</p>
-<p>The <a href="http://www.pitivi.org/">PiTiVi</a> video editor is
-another nice way to make Ogg Theora videos. Just drag your source
-into the timeline and export.</p>
-<p>A way to both stream and encode theora format video is with videolan (VLC).
-Example for streaming the video4linux device in ogg theora/vorbis:
-</p>
-<p><code>vlc v4l:/dev/video:input=3:norm=pal:size=384x288 --sout \
-'#transcode{vcodec=theora,vb=300,acodec=vorb,ab=96}:std{access=http,mux=ogg,url=server.example.org:8000}'</code>
-</p>
-<p>Or, replace <code>v4l:/dev/video:input=3:norm=pal:size=384x288</code>
-with a filename if you want to transcode.
-</p>
-For more on the vlc syntax, see:
-<a href="http://videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch09.html">http://videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch09.html</a>
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="42"></a>
-<h2>Q. Is there any way to use Theora on Microsoft Windows at this point?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-Yes, you can use your Theora files on windows using <a
-href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Directshow filters</a>. <a
-href="http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/">FFdshow</a> also has support for Theora. You
-can also try <a href="http://www.videolan.org/">vlc</a>, realplayer <a
-href="https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7">
-Theora plugins</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">mplayer for windows</a>.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="misc"></a>
-<h1>Misc and Credits </h1>
-
-<a name="50"></a>
-<h2>Q. Who's in charge of Theora development?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-The Xiph.org Foundation is the primary developer of Theora, but this
-just means a group of volunteers; the process is open to anyone with
-good ideas who whats to contribute.
-</p><p>
-The VP3 codec that served as the base of
-Theora was written by a company called <a href="http://www.on2.com">On2 Technologies</a>.
-Who donated the source code to the Xiph.org Foundation in 2002.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-
-<a name="53"></a>
-<h2>Q. Who maintains The Glorious Theora FAQ?</h2>
-<div class="answer">
-<p>
-No one person at the moment. Send changes to the list if it needs them. It
-was originally written by Emmett Plant and Dan Miller. his FAQ wouldn't be
-here at all without the work of Slammin' Stan Seibert, to whom we are
-eternally grateful. It has since been updated by a number of people.
-</p>
-</div>
-
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+<h1>Theora FAQ</h1>
+
+<h2><a href="#what">What is Theora</a></h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#10">What is Theora?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#11">Why use Theora?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#12">What other video formats will Theora compete with?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#13">What is Ogg? What is Vorbis? What is xiph.org?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#14">What is the license for Theora?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#15">Why the name 'Theora?'</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2><a href="#VP3">Theora and VP3</a></h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#20">Is the Theora bitstream identical to VP3? </a></li>
+ <li><a href="#21">What can Theora do that VP3 couldn't do? </a></li>
+ <li><a href="#22">How will I transition my old VP3 files to the new format?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#23">Can I convert Ogg Theora files into VP3?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#24">Isn't VP3 a patented technology? </a></li>
+ <li><a href="#25">What if Xiph.org and On2 decide to break off their agreement? </a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2><a href="#development">Development</a></h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#30">When will it all be finished? Can I use it right now?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#31">What is an Alpha Release?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#32">What is Tarkin? </a></li>
+ <li><a href="#33">How can I help with development?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#34">How will Ogg Theora interoperate with [insert your favorite media architecture]?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#35">How can I donate to these amazing projects?</a></li>
+</ul>
+<h2><a href="#working"><b>Using Theora</b></a></h2>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#40">What players currently support Theora?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#41">How can I encode videos to Theora?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#42">Is there any way to use Theora on Microsoft Windows at this point?</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<a href="#misc"><b>Misc and Credits</b></a>
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="#50">Who's in charge of Theora development?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#53">Who maintains The Glorious Theora FAQ?</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Last update 2005 August 13 by Ralph Giles.</p>
+
+<h1><a name="what"></a>What is Theora</h1>
+
+<a name="10"></a>
+<h2>Q. What is Theora?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>Theora is an <strong>open</strong> video codec being developed by the
+Xiph.org Foundation as part of their Ogg project (It is a project that aims to
+integrate On2's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP3">VP3</a>
+video codec, Ogg <a href="http://www.vorbis.com/">Vorbis</a> audio codec
+and Ogg multimedia container formats into a multimedia solution that can
+compete with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4">MPEG-4</a> format).
+Theora is derived directly
+from On2's VP3 codec; currently the two are nearly identical, varying
+only in framing headers, but Theora will diverge and improve from
+the main VP3 development lineage as time progresses.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<a name="11"></a>
+<h2>Q. Why use Theora?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+It's open and free. Do you need more reasons?
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<a name="12"></a>
+<h2>Q. What other video formats will Theora compete with?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Theora is targeted at competing with MPEG-4 (e.g., XviD and DivX),
+RealVideo, Windows Media Video, and similar lower-bitrate video
+compression schemes.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<a name="13"></a>
+<h2>Q. What is Ogg? What is Vorbis? What is Xiph.org?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p><a href="http://www.vorbis.com/">Vorbis</a> is an audio codec,
+Theora is a video codec. Ogg is the transport layer that both are stored in,
+so a video file will be Theora-encoded data inside an Ogg file, while audio
+is normally Vorbis-encoded data inside an ogg file.
+</p><p>
+ The <a href="http://www.xiph.org/">Xiph.org</a> Foundation is a
+Delaware non-profit company devoted to producing, maintaining and
+supporting an open multimedia platform.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<a name="14"></a>
+<h2>Q. What is the license for Theora?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+The Theora reference implementation (like all codecs published by the
+Xiph.org Foundation) is distributed to the public under a
+BSD-style license. It is completely free for commercial or noncommercial
+use. That means that commercial developers may independently write
+Theora software which is compatible with the specification for no charge
+and without restrictions of any kind.
+<p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="15"></a>
+<h2>Q. Why the name 'Theora?'</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Like other Xiph.org Foundation codec projects such as Vorbis or Tarkin,
+Theora is named after a fictional character. Theora Jones was the name of
+Edison Carter's 'controller' on the television series
+<a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0089568/" class="subtle">Max Headroom</a>.
+She was played by <a href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0005301/" class="subtle">Amanda Pays</a>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="VP3"></a>
+<h1>Theora and VP3</h1>
+
+<a name="20"></a>
+<h2>Q. Is the Theora bitstream identical to VP3?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Yes and No. Theora is a superset of VP3, so VP3 streams (with minor
+syntactic modifications) can be made into Theora streams without
+recompression (but not vice versa).
+</p><p>
+Theora is based upon the VP3 codec designed by On2.
+However, in addition to the new featuers, some redundancy was removed
+from the bitstream, so even for VP3-compatible Theora streams, the
+binary packet formats are not identical.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="21"></a>
+<h2>Q. What can Theora do that VP3 couldn't do?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+The major change from VP3 to Theora is architectural. VP3, like most
+codecs of today, makes certain assumptions about the nature of the material
+it compresses. These assumptions take the form of fixed sets of numeric
+values, such as quantization matrices, which control how different
+frequency components of the signal are handled, and token frequency tables,
+which control the efficiency of post-transform lossless coding. In Theora,
+we have leveraged the intrinsic flexibility of the Ogg multimedia framework
+to allow the encoder to modify these values appropriately for the material.
+This simple, powerful approach has already been proven effective in Vorbis,
+and will allow for a longer cycle of encoder optimization without requiring
+client-side updates.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="22"></a>
+<h2>Q. How will I transition my old VP3 files to the new format?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Because Theora is a 'superset' of VP3, tools can easily be created that
+will allow VP3 files to be losslessly transcoded into Ogg Theora format
+with no loss in quality. An example tool is included with the reference
+implementation.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="23"></a>
+<h2>Q. Can I convert Ogg Theora files into VP3?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>Why would you want to do something like that? Are you nuts?</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="24"></a>
+<h2>Q. Isn't VP3 a patented technology?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Yes, some portions of the VP3 codec are covered by patents. However, the
+Xiph.org Foundation has negotiated an irrevocable free license to the VP3
+codec for any purpose imaginable on behalf of the public. It is legal to
+use VP3 in any way you see fit (unless, of course, you're doing something
+illegal with it in your particular jurisdiction). You are free to download
+VP3, use it free of charge, implement it in a for-sale product, implement
+it in a free product, make changes to the source and distribute those
+changes, or print the source code out and wallpaper your spare room with
+it.
+</p><p>
+For more information, check the VP3 Legal Terms on the SVN page.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="25"></a>
+<h2>Q. What if Xiph.org and On2 decide to break off their agreement?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Because Theora is an Open Source project, the source code will continue to
+be available and development will continue. Users will still be protected
+from the On2 patents.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="development"></a>
+<h1>Development </h1>
+
+<a name="30"></a>
+<h2>Q. When will it all be finished? Can I use it right now?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Theora alpha 4 is out and bitstream format was frozen in 2004. So, files
+produced by the alpha 3 and later reference encoder will be supported by
+all future decoders. It's completely ready to use today.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="31"></a>
+<h2>Q. What is an Alpha Release?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Typically when software is created at a software company, it goes
+through a number of stages before it's released out to the world. You've
+probably heard of 'beta-testing' before. That's when people take code
+that has been deemed 'not quite ready' and are testing it out so that
+the authors can fix bugs where necessary.
+</p><p>
+'Alpha' code is strictly for internal development only, which is to
+say, 'No one sees this code, it's not even close to being done yet.' At
+the Xiph.org Foundation, we release everything we do so that people can
+help us move the codebase forward by reporting bugs and submitting patches.
+So, even 'Alpha' code needs to get out to the world.
+</p><p>
+And like many open source projects, our 'alpha' code has in fact been
+very stable since the alpha 3 release and is ready for real use. We're
+still calling it alpha more to indicate that it's not feature complete,
+and that we reserve the right to change some things, not that it's
+buggy.
+</p><p>
+We encourage and depend on the open-source developer community to get
+involved early. We release Alpha builds to give these hearty souls a chance
+to see what's cooking, and perhaps to add some ingredients of their own. If
+you think you have the right stuff, please join the party at
+<a href="http://www.Theora.org/lists">www.Theora.org/lists</a>.
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="32"></a>
+<h2>Q. What is Tarkin?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Tarkin was essentially a proof-of-concept wavelet-based codec. Its
+experimental nature means it will not be ready for general use for some
+time. VP3 is a high-quality codec that can meet today's video needs now, so
+we are focusing our efforts on Theora for the moment.
+<p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="33"></a>
+<h2>Q. How can I help with development?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Head on over to the <a href="http://www.Theora.org/svn.html">SVN</a>
+ page to grab the codebase, and hack away! Post your contributions online,
+ and tell us about it on the <a href="http://www.Theora.org/lists.html">Theora-dev
+</a> mailing list.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="34"></a>
+<h2>Q. How will Ogg Theora interoperate with [insert your favorite media architecture]?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+As the Ogg Vorbis format has gained acceptance, components have become
+available to play Ogg files on practically all of the major media players.
+We expect a similar if not superior level of support for Ogg Theora.
+Developers wanted! (if you're interested, sign up for the
+Theora-codecs at xiph.org mailing list).
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="35"></a>
+<h2>Q. How can I donate to these amazing projects?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Wow, thanks! You can find more information on donating to the Xiph.org
+Foundation by following <a href="http://www.xiph.org/donate">
+this link</a>! Thanks in advance!
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="working"></a>
+<h1>Using Theora</h1>
+
+<a name="40"></a>
+<h2>Q. What players currently support Theora?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Major players like <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">mplayer</a>,
+<a href="http://www.xinehq.de/">xine</a>, <a
+href="http://www.helixcommunity.org">helix player</a> and <a
+href="http://www.videolan.org/">VideoLAN</a> supports Theora.
+Directshow <a href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">filters</a>
+are also available for use on Windows platform.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="41"></a>
+<h2>Q. How can I encode videos to Theora?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>Have a look at <a
+href="http://www.dogphilosophy.net/SECTION-Technical_Stuff/ogg-theora-microhowto.html">
+ogg-theora-microhowto</a> and <a href="http://www.annodex.net/anx_theora.html">transcode
+</a>quicktime mov files to Theora files under Linux.
+You can use libogg, to wrap theora video with vorbis audio in Ogg
+file.
+</p>
+<p>A user-friendly way to convert .dv and .avi format video into Ogg Theora format is
+with ffmpeg2theora. It can be found at: <a href="http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/">
+http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/</a>
+</p>
+<p>The <a href="http://www.pitivi.org/">PiTiVi</a> video editor is
+another nice way to make Ogg Theora videos. Just drag your source
+into the timeline and export.</p>
+<p>A way to both stream and encode theora format video is with videolan (VLC).
+Example for streaming the video4linux device in ogg theora/vorbis:
+</p>
+<p><code>vlc v4l:/dev/video:input=3:norm=pal:size=384x288 --sout \
+'#transcode{vcodec=theora,vb=300,acodec=vorb,ab=96}:std{access=http,mux=ogg,url=server.example.org:8000}'</code>
+</p>
+<p>Or, replace <code>v4l:/dev/video:input=3:norm=pal:size=384x288</code>
+with a filename if you want to transcode.
+</p>
+For more on the vlc syntax, see:
+<a href="http://videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch09.html">http://videolan.org/doc/videolan-howto/en/ch09.html</a>
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="42"></a>
+<h2>Q. Is there any way to use Theora on Microsoft Windows at this point?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+Yes, you can use your Theora files on windows using <a
+href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Directshow filters</a>. <a
+href="http://ffdshow.sourceforge.net/">FFdshow</a> also has support for Theora. You
+can also try <a href="http://www.videolan.org/">vlc</a>, realplayer <a
+href="https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7">
+Theora plugins</a> or <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">mplayer for windows</a>.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="misc"></a>
+<h1>Misc and Credits </h1>
+
+<a name="50"></a>
+<h2>Q. Who's in charge of Theora development?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+The Xiph.org Foundation is the primary developer of Theora, but this
+just means a group of volunteers; the process is open to anyone with
+good ideas who whats to contribute.
+</p><p>
+The VP3 codec that served as the base of
+Theora was written by a company called <a href="http://www.on2.com">On2 Technologies</a>.
+Who donated the source code to the Xiph.org Foundation in 2002.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
+<a name="53"></a>
+<h2>Q. Who maintains The Glorious Theora FAQ?</h2>
+<div class="answer">
+<p>
+No one person at the moment. Send changes to the list if it needs them. It
+was originally written by Emmett Plant and Dan Miller. his FAQ wouldn't be
+here at all without the work of Slammin' Stan Seibert, to whom we are
+eternally grateful. It has since been updated by a number of people.
+</p>
+</div>
+
+
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-
-<h1>Theora video compression</h1>
-<p>
-Theora is a free and open video compression format from the
-<span class="xiph">Xiph.org Foundation</span>. Like all our
-multimedia technology 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.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-Theora scales from postage stamp to HD resolution and
-beyond, and is considered particularly competitive at low
-bitrates. It is in the same class as MPEG-4/DiVX, and like
-the <a href="http://xiph.org/vorbis/">Vorbis audio codec</a>
-it has lots of room for improvement and encoder technology
-develops.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The bitstream format for Theora I was frozen Thursday, 2004
-July 1. All bitstreams encoded since will remain compatible
-with future releases.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Source</h2>
-
-<ul>
- <li>The <strong>libtheora</strong> reference implementation provides
- the standard encoder and decoder under a BSD license.
- [<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz">libtheora-1.0alpha5</a>]
- [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora/">SVN trunk</a>]
- </li>
- <li>The <strong>theora-exp</strong> project is a from-scratch
- implementation of the complete Theora I decoder and a
- more sophisticated but still experimental encoder.
- [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/experimental/derf/theora-exp/">SVN trunk</a>]
- </li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Both of implementations depend on the following libraries...</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz">libogg-1.1.2</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.1.tar.gz">libvorbis-1.1.1</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://www.libsdl.org/">libSDL 1.2</a> or later for the playback example</li>
- </ul>
-
-<h2>Documenation</h2>
-
-<ul>
- <li><a href="faq/">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
- <li><a href="doc/Theora_I_spec.pdf">Theora I Format Specification</a></li>
- <li><a href="doc/libtheora-1.0alpha5/">libtheora API reference</a></li>
- <li><a href="http://people.xiph.org/~tterribe/doc/libtheora-exp/">theora-exp API reference</a>
-</ul>
-
-<h2>Binaries</h2>
-
-<p>Downloads to help you play or encode Ogg Theora files.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/">ffmpeg2theora</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://videolan.org/">VLC player</a></li>
-<li><a href="https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/">Helix Player</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Windows Media plugins</a></li>
-</ul>
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+
+<h1>Theora video compression</h1>
+<p>
+Theora is a free and open video compression format from the
+<span class="xiph">Xiph.org Foundation</span>. Like all our
+multimedia technology 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.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Theora scales from postage stamp to HD resolution and
+beyond, and is considered particularly competitive at low
+bitrates. It is in the same class as MPEG-4/DiVX, and like
+the <a href="http://xiph.org/vorbis/">Vorbis audio codec</a>
+it has lots of room for improvement and encoder technology
+develops.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The bitstream format for Theora I was frozen Thursday, 2004
+July 1. All bitstreams encoded since will remain compatible
+with future releases.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Source</h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li>The <strong>libtheora</strong> reference implementation provides
+ the standard encoder and decoder under a BSD license.
+ [<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz">libtheora-1.0alpha5</a>]
+ [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora/">SVN trunk</a>]
+ </li>
+ <li>The <strong>theora-exp</strong> project is a from-scratch
+ implementation of the complete Theora I decoder and a
+ more sophisticated but still experimental encoder.
+ [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/experimental/derf/theora-exp/">SVN trunk</a>]
+ </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Both of implementations depend on the following libraries...</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.1.2.tar.gz">libogg-1.1.2</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.1.1.tar.gz">libvorbis-1.1.1</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.libsdl.org/">libSDL 1.2</a> or later for the playback example</li>
+ </ul>
+
+<h2>Documenation</h2>
+
+<ul>
+ <li><a href="faq/">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="doc/Theora_I_spec.pdf">Theora I Format Specification</a></li>
+ <li><a href="doc/libtheora-1.0alpha5/">libtheora API reference</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.xiph.org/~tterribe/doc/libtheora-exp/">theora-exp API reference</a>
+</ul>
+
+<h2>Binaries</h2>
+
+<p>Downloads to help you play or encode Ogg Theora files.</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="http://www.v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/">ffmpeg2theora</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://videolan.org/">VLC player</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://player.helixcommunity.org/2005/downloads/">Helix Player</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Windows Media plugins</a></li>
+</ul>
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-
-<h1>Theora News</h1>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 August 20 - libtheora 1.0 alpha 5 release ]</h3>
-<p>We're pleased to announce a new release of the libtheora reference
-implemenation. This is an incremental update over alpha 4, to draw
-a line under recent work before we start adding optimization work.
-</p><p>
-<p>There are two important bugfixes as well, so we recommend upgrading
-to everyone. This release is source and binary compatible with
-1.0 alpha 4.</p>
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.bz2">
-libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.bz2
-</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz">
-libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz
-</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip">
-libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip
-</a>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Changes since the 1.0 alpha 4 release:
-<ul>
- <li>Fixed bitrate management bugs that caused popping and encode
- errors.</li>
- <li>Fixed a crash problem with the theora_state internals not
- being intialized properly.</li>
- <li>new theora_granule_shift() utility function</li>
- <li>dump_video example now makes YUV4MPEG files by default, so
- the results can be fed back to encoder_example and similar
- tools. The old behavior is restored with the '-r' switch.</li>
- <li>./configure now prints a summary</li>
- <li>simple unit test of the comment api under 'make check'</li>
- <li>misc code cleanup, warning and leak fixes</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
-<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed!</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 June 5 - Cinelerra edits Theora ]</h3>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://cinelerra.org">Cinelerra</a> video editor
-which has supported encoding to theora for some time, recently got
-decode support as well. This means you can edit theora video clips
-in Cinelerra!</p>
-
-<p>Thanks to Andraz for adding this new feature.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 May 29 - Live streams of Guadec talks ]</h3>
-
-<p><a href="http://fluendo.com/">Fluendo</a> is again streaming
-all the talks from the <a href="http://2005.guadec.org">Guadec
-conference</a> this year in Ogg Theora format.</p>
-
-<p>Live <a href="http://stream.fluendo.com/guadec/">streams are
-available</a> and will be posted to the
-<a href="http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/">archive</a>
-as they are available.</p>
-
-
-<h3>[ 2005 May 23 - systm episodes in Ogg Theora format ]</h3>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.kevinrose.com/">Kevin Rose</a> of <a
-href="http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/index.html">The Screen Savers</a>
-and G4 tech tv, is doing <a href="http://systm.org/">a new show</a> for
-direct internet distribution.
-The first episode is up and available in a number of formats, including
-Ogg Theora.</p>
-
-<p>Here is a <a
-href="http://www.prolexic.com/systm/systm--0001--warspyingbox--large.theora.ogg.torrent">torrent
-link</a> to the large format
-version.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 May 14 - Cinelerra adds export support for Ogg Theora ]</h3>
-
-<p>The latest CVS version of <a href="http://cinelerra.org/">Cinelerra</a>
-non-linear edit and compositing tool for Linux supports exporting
-video in Ogg Theora format.</p>
-<p>See <a href="http://cvs.cinelerra.org">cvs.cinelerra.org</a> to
-try out the code.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Apr 23 - Elphel Theora camera in Xcell magazine ]</h3>
-
-<p>Andrey Filippov has an
-<a href="http://xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_53/xc_video53.htm">article</a>
-on his FPGA Theora encoder in <a
-href="http://xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/">Xcell Journal</a>
-this month. While the earlier <a
-href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3888835064.html">article at LinuxDevices</a>
-focussed on the software, this one covers in more detail the hardware
-and use of the FPGA to achieve the elphel camera's remarkable encoding
-speed.</p>
-
-<p>Andrey and other hackers will be demonstrating the cameras at the <a
-href="http://www.opensource-forum.ru/">Open Source Forum</a> in Moscow
-next weekend.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Apr 17 - Ogg Theora decoder ported to C# ]</h3>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.ogre3d.org/">Ogre</a> developer pjcast has a C#
-port of the Ogg Theora decoder,
-based primarily on the <a href="http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/">JOrbis</a>
-and <a href="http://www.flumotion.net/jar/cortado/">Cortado</a> java
-decoders.</p>
-
-<p>He reports both video and sound are working, and performance is
-pretty good. The decoder components should be usable under any of
-the C# frameworks, but the example playback application is still
-a bit rough and not portable outside MS Windows.</p>
-
-<p>A <a href="http://www.wreckedgames.com/ogg.zip">development
-snapshot</a> is available for those who would like to
-try out the code.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Mar 24 - Fedora Conference Video ]</h3>
-
-<p>Video from the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/">Fedora
-Users & Develper Conference</a> last month in Boston is up in Ogg Theora
-format. The files <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConVideos">are
-available here</a>, or you can get a complete torrents of the
-<a href="http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FUDCon-devel-videos.torrent">Developer</a>
-and <a href="http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FUDCon-user-videos.torrent">User</a>
-tracks. Versions with only Ogg Vorbis audio are also linked.</p>
-
-<p>It's great to see stuff like this going up.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update</strong> as of 20050405, the direct file links no
-longer work, but the torrent is still available.</p>
-
-<p>In related news, <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/">Seth
-Nickell</a> has video of the experimental
-<a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/luminocity/">Luminocity</a> OpenGL
-compositing engine and window manager in Theora. <a
-href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots">Video screenshots!</a>
-Quite cool.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Mar 23 - Elphel FPGA camera encodes Theora ]</h3>
-<p>
-Andrey Filippov <a
-href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3888835064.html">has an
-article</a> today on <a
-href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/">LinuxDevices</a> describing his open
-source hardware theora encoder, embedded in the reconfigurable network
-camera he designed, which is also open source. Now this is what
-computing should be like!</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Mar 22 - JRoar streaming server ]</h3>
-<p>
-The <a href="http://www.jcraft.com/jroar/">JRoar</a> streaming server
-now supports Ogg Theora. Has for a while actually, but then have a
-nice set of <a href="http://jroar.jcraft.com:8800/">test streams</a>
-up.
-</p><p>
-JRoar is a pure Java Ogg streaming server from the folks at <a
-href="http://www.jcraft.com/">JCraft</a>. I can serve static files,
-mirror external streams, or serve a source stream from a number of
-clients. It can also serve the
-<a href="http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/">JOrbis</a> Ogg Vorbis player
-directly, for a pure-url playback experience.
-</p><p>
-Thanks to the JRoar team for putting up such a nice demo of theora.
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Jan 21 - Katiuska 0.7 for KDE released ]</h3>
-<p>
-Katiuska can now rip dvds by simply selecting subtitle and
-audio language + audio and video quality. Katiuska
-also allows you to transcode any video file to
-oggtheora.
-</p>
-<p>
-Requires:<br>
-KDE with kommander1.1development2 <br>
-mplayer <br>
-lsdvd
-</p>
-<p>
-Get it here: <br>
-<a href="http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831">http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831</a>
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Jan 13 - Thoggen 0.2 released ]</h3>
-<p>
-Thoggen is a DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on Gtk+ and
-GStreamer. It creates ogg/theora video files and features an extremely easy
-and intuitively to use interface. Thoggen supports picture cropping and
-resizing.
-</p>
-<p>
-Get Thoggen 0.2 from: <br>
-<a href="http://thoggen.net/download/">http://thoggen.net/download/</a>
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2005 Jan 3 - GeeXBox live CD supports theora playback ]</h3>
-<p>
-The <a href="http://geexbox.org/">GeeXboX</a> bootable CD media
-player/linux distribution now supports Ogg Theora playback. Thanks guys!
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Dec 24 - Cortado 0.1.0 released ]</h3>
-<p>
-Fluendo announces the <a href="http://www.flumotion.net/src/cortado/cortado-0.1.0.tar.gz">first public release of Cortado</a>, a java-based media player applet.
-Since it's a first release, building it might still be rough around the edges,
-but should be possible using at least Jikes with GCJ classpath libraries, or the Sun compiler.
-You can also download <a href="http://www.flumotion.net/jar/cortado/">built .jar files</a> of this release.
-</p>
-<p>
-Visit <a href="http://mirror.fluendo.com/">Fluendo zoo</a> to have a look at cortado in action.<br />
-Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Fluendo !
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Dec 15 - libtheora 1.0 alpha 4 release ]</h3>
-<p>We're pleased to announce a new release of the libtheora reference
-implemenation. This is an incremental update over alpha 3, in support
-of <a href="http://icecast.org/">Icecast's</a> use of some new utility
-calls to provide theora streaming support.</p>
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.bz2">
- libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.bz2
-</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.gz">
- libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.gz
-</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha4.zip">
- libtheora-1.0alpha4.zip
-</a>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Changes since the alpha3 release:
-<ul>
- <li>first draft of the Theora I Format Specification</li>
- <li>API documentation generated from theora.h with Doxygen</li>
- <li>fix a double-update bug in the motion analysis</li>
- <li>apply the loop filter before filling motion vector border
- in the reference frame</li>
- <li>new utility functions:
- <tt>theora_packet_isheader(),</tt>
- <tt>theora_packet_iskeyframe()</tt>, and
- <tt>theora_granule_frame()</tt></li>
- <li>optional support for building without floating point</li>
- <li>optional support for building without encode support</li>
- <li>various build and packaging fixes</li>
- <li>pkg-config support</li>
- <li>SymbianOS build support</li>
-</ul>
-</p>
-<p>We still plan to make incompatible api changes before the first beta
-release, but this new alpha provides a stable base including all the
-work that has happened up to those changes.</p>
-<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed!</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Dec 11 - Theora support in LiVES ]</h3>
-<p>Theora is now fully supported in LiVES is a Video Editing System (LiVES), as of version 0.9.1.
-If you are interested in having a nice, user friendly interface for
-testing out theora, then download LiVES and try it.<br>
-<a href="http://lives.sourceforge.net"> (http://lives.sourceforge.net)</a></p>
-
-<p>The encoder plugin for theora is written in Python and can be found here:
-<a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lives/lives-plugins/marcos-encoders/theora_encoder.py"> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lives/lives-plugins/marcos-encoders/theora_encoder.py</a></p>
-
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Dec 6 - Fluendo funds RTP streaming of Theora and Vorbis ]</h3>
-<p>Streaming media startup <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/">Fluendo.com</a>
-announced today they will be funding a spec and reference implementation
-for encapsulation of Theora video and Vorbis audio over the RTP streaming
-protocol, important for multicast, digital broadcast, and conferencing
-applications.</p>
-<p>A <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">press
-release</a> was issued this morning.</p>
-<p>While HTTP streaming of Ogg-encapsulated multimedia has been supported
-for most of the history of our free codecs, RTP support is an oft-requested
-feature that we've never had a good solution for. We're very happy to
-see Fluendo driving this new work.</p>
-<p>Phil Kerr will be managing the developement of the new drafts. The
-development process is open, with discussion taking place in the new
-<a href="http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/xiph-rtp">xiph-rtp</a>
-mailing list. Please join if you're interested in these issues.
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Nov 21 - Theora encoder, Katiuska 0.6.1, released ]</h3>
-<p>Katiuska is a theora encoder frontend that runs on KDE. It uses ffmpeg2theora, mencoder,
-the encoder_example that comes with the theora libs and a little gpl bash script. It can
-encode mostly any kind of video that ffmpeg and mencoder can (avi, mpeg4 and 2, quicktime etc).</p>
-<p>On a KDE system, first install libtheora (see navigation links to the left).</p>
-<p>Make sure Kommander is installed: <br>
-<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kommander/kommander-executor-1.1devel2.tar.bz2?download">
-http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kommander/kommander-executor-1.1devel2.tar.bz2?download</a></p>
-<p>Then download Katiuska, and install it by unpacking it, change to the katiuska directory, use "su" to
-login as root, and then enter the command "./setup.sh". Katiuska can be downloaded from: <br>
-<a href="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831">http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831</a>
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Nov 20 - Windows installer for RealPlayer plugins ]</h3>
-<p>A Windows installer for version 0.5 of the Helix Theora &
-Vorbis plugins for RealPlayer 10/10.5 and RealOne Player has been released. There are no code
-changes from the 0.5 zip file that was posted earlier. This just replaces the
-zip file with an installer. You can get the installer at:</p>
-<a href="https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/713/xiphplins_win32_0_5.exe">
-https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/713/xiphplins_win32_0_5.exe</a>
-<br>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Nov 11 - Flumotion streaming media server updated ]</h3>
-<p>Flumotion 0.1.3, <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/">Fluendo</a>'s
-streaming media server based on Theora, was
-released today.</p>
-<p>It is available from <a
-href="http://www.fluendo.com/downloads">http://www.fluendo.com/downloads</a>.</p>
-<p>Packages for FC3 are available from the GStreamer repository.</p>
-<p><i>This release features a lot of end-user polishing
-based on the feedback from our brave testers. If something didn't work
-in a previous release, please try this one and give us some
-feedback.</i></p>
-
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Oct 30 - new Theora and Vorbis plugins for RealPlayer 10 ]</h3>
-<p>New versions of the Helix Theora and Vorbis plugins are now available for
-RealPlayer 10. The major feature of this release is adding chaining support.</p>
-The new plugins can be downloaded at: <br>
-<a href="https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7&release_id=361">
-https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7&release_id=361</a>
-<br>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Oct 29 - Kino 0.7.4 exports in Ogg Theora format ]</h3>
-<p>Kino, an actively developed non-linear video editing program for Linux, now supports the export of video in
-Ogg Theora format.</p>
-The Kino website is at: <a href="http://kino.schirmacher.de/">http://kino.schirmacher.de/</a>
-<br>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Oct 20 - Flumotion streaming media server ]</h3>
-<p>The first release for public consumption of Fluendo's Flumotion streaming media server
-is available.</p>
-<p>Yes, there will be bugs. Feel free to report them. But there are also
-lots of cool features, for which Fluendo owes a debt of gratitude to both the
-GStreamer and Twisted developers.</p>
-The Fluendo website is at: <a href="http://www.fluendo.com">http://www.fluendo.com</a> <br>
-The development site is at <a href="https://core.fluendo.com/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi">
-https://core.fluendo.com/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi</a> <br>
-The tarball is at: <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/downloads/flumotion-0.1.0.tar.bz2">
-http://www.fluendo.com/downloads/flumotion-0.1.0.tar.bz2</a>
-<br>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Sept 30 - Fluendo test stream ]</h3>
-<p>Fluendo has posted a stable test stream for those wanting to try
-theora's network aspect. It's mostly just a webcam of their office,
-and often rather dull at night (or when the power is out) but it's nice
-to have something that's generally available for testing. Thanks,
-Fluendo!</p>
-<p>The stream url is
-<a
-href="http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/">http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/</a>,
-or click <a href="fluendo-theoratest.pls">here</a> to open the stream in
-your player application.
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Sept 28 - v2v posts theora content ]</h3>
-<p>Florian Schneider has posted video from the <a
-href="http://neuro.kein.org/">neuro</a> conference this past February in
-Munich, all in theora format. This includes a <a
-href="http://papaja.kein.org/download/v2v_neuro-img.ogg.torrent">panel
-discussion</a> with Enno Patalas, revered film preservationist; Brian
-Holmes; Sebastian Lütgert; and Ralph Giles, one of the theora
-developers. General documentation of the conference and its other
-sessions is available <a
-href="http://eu.d-a-s-h.org/neurodoc">here</a>.</p>
-<p>Florian has also posted versions of a programme he produced for the
-German French tv station arte. Torrents for <a
-href="http://papaja.kein.org/download/v2v_wastun-unorg.ogg.torrent">unorg</a>
-and <a
-href="http://papaja.kein.org/download/v2v_wastun-world.ogg.torrent">world</a>
-are available.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Sept 11 - interview with Fluendo CEO, Julien Moutte ]</h3>
-<p>OSNews has an in inteview with Julien Moutte discussing upcoming
-products and services based
-on Ogg Theora, including a java version of the Theora client that
-will allow viewing of Ogg Theora format video inside web browsing windows. <br>
-<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8218">http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8218</a>
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Aug 28 - kfile_theora 0.2 announced ]</h3>
-
-<p>kfile_theora is a KDE kfile plugin that will display infos about ogg theora video files in konqueror & meta data dialog.<br>
- Currently gives info about size, length, quality and some audio settings.<br>
- Requires libogg, libvorbis and libtheora.
- </p>
- <p>For more information, please go to:<br>
- <a href="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=15553">http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=15553</a>
- </p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Aug 25 - Richard Stallman on software patents ]</h3>
-
-<p>Videos in Ogg Theora format of Richard Stallman of
-FSF + Christian Engström and Marco Schulze of FFII visiting the
-Estonian Information Technology College, and
-talking about the danger of patenting software have been put on the net.</p>
-
-<p>General info:<br>
-<a href="http://kwiki.ffii.org/Tallinn040722En">http://kwiki.ffii.org/Tallinn040722En</a><br>
-<a href="http://www.itcollege.ee/koostoo/avalikudloengudarhiiv.php">http://www.itcollege.ee/koostoo/avalikudloengudarhiiv.php</a></p>
-
-<p>Videos themselves:<br>
-<a href="http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_1.ogg">http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_1.ogg</a><br />
-<a href="http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_2.ogg">http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_2.ogg</a></p>
-
-<p>Mirror:<br>
-<a href="http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_1.ogg">http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_1.ogg</a><br>
-<a href="http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_2.ogg">http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_2.ogg</a></p>
-
-<p>Videos are encoded as described in ogg-theora-microhowto. They are half of the
-original size, and qualities are Vorbis: 2/10 and Theora: 4/10.</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Aug 21 - aKademy broadcast in theora ]</h3>
-
-<p>Streaming startup <a href="http://fluendo.com/">fluendo.com</a> is doing it again.<br />
-This time live from the <a href="http://conference2004.kde.org/">KDE World summit</a> in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
-</p>
-<p>During the conference, the live streams are available from <a href="http://streamingserver.akademy.kde.org/">http://streamingserver.akademy.kde.org/</a> along with viewer suggestions.<br />
-Archives are available at <a href="http://ktown.kde.org/akademy/">http://ktown.kde.org/akademy/</a>
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Jun 29 - Guadec broadcast in theora ]</h3>
-
-<p>Streaming startup <a href="http://fluendo.com/">fluendo.com</a> has
-been demonstrating their encoding and server application at <a
-href="http://guadec.org/">GUADEC</a> this year, broadcasting the
-presentations <strong>live in theora</strong>. This is a great
-demonstration of open media technology. Congratulations to fluendo and a
-big thanks to everyone who made this possible!</p>
-<p>During the conference, the live streams are available from
-<a href="http://stream1.hia.no/">http://stream1.hia.no/</a> along with
-viewer suggestions. Archives are available at the same url if you
-missed something.</p>
-<p>What a change a year makes. Last year, we were very sad to see <a
-href="2003.guadec.org">GU4DEC 2003</a> broadcasting the talks in
-the proprietary RealVideo format. Now, not only are the talks in a free
-video format, but you can <a
-href="https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7">use
-RealPlayer</a> to watch them!</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Jun 15 - Creative Commons videos ]</h3>
-
-<p>
-In honor of our slashdotting, we've made torrents available for
-<a href="torrents/cc-theora-small.torrent">small</a> and
-<a href="torrents/cc-theora-large.torrent">large</a> versions of
-the top three winning promotion videos for the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative
-Commons</a> licenses, encoded in theora. Free content in a free format.
-</p><p>
-We also have a feature film, <a href="http://fourthwall.creativecommons.org/">David Ball's</a>
-edgy relationship drama <a
-href="http://fourthwall.creativecommons.org/honey/"><em>Honey</em></a>.
-You can download both <a href="torrents/Honey-small.torrent">small</a> and
-<a href="torrents/Honey-large.torrent">large</a> versions via bittorrent.
-These are distributed under an <a
-href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/">Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial</a>
-license.
-</p><p>
-Share and enjoy!
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Jun 1 - Theora I bitstream freeze ]</h3>
-
-<p>
-Big news. The Theora I bitstream format is now frozen! This means it's safe
-to start distributing videos in the theora format.
-</p><p>
-<em>Files produced by the alpha 3 reference encoder will be supported by
-all future decoders</em>.
-</p><p>
-Beta 1 was going to be the official freeze point, but was delayed by
-continuing work on the draft specification document; however
-we have reviewed enough of the design in writing the spec that we no
-longer need to reserve the right to make corrections to
-the encoder behavior.
-</p><p>
-So go ahead, there's no reason to delay adopting a free alternative any more!
-</p>
-<h3>[ 2004 Mar 20 - Theora alpha 3 release ]</h3>
-<p>
-We're pleased to announce the alpha 3 release of the theora reference
-implementation.</p>
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.bz2">
- http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.bz2
-</a><br><a href="http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.gz">
- http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.gz
-</a><br><a href="http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.zip">
- http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.zip</a>
-</blockquote>
-<p>
-The main differences over alpha 2:
-</p>
-<ul>
-<li> The encoded image has been flipped to match the sense used in VP3,
- with the origin at the lower left. This allows lossless transcoding
- of VP3 content.
-</li>
-<li> The decoder data tables included in the bitstream header are more
- complete and have more scope for future encoder improvements.
-</li>
-<li> Some experimental tools are available in the win32 directory,
- including a transcoder for avi vp3 files.
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>
-We hope there were be no more incompatible bitstream changes, but as
-with previous alpha releases we make no promises that the format will
-not change again.
-</p><p>
-Experimental playback support is now available (separately) for
-Helix/Realplayer 10, Xine and mplayer; you might look at those if you
-want a more full-featured player. Be sure to use an alpha-3 compatible
-version.
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ 2004 Mar 20 - source now in subversion ]</h3>
-
-<p>
-We've switched our version control system to <a
-href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion</a>
-from cvs, along with all the other Xiph.org projects.
-</p><p>
-Please make a fresh checkout if you're following the
-development tree:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<tt>svn checkout http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora</tt>
-</blockquote>
-<p>
-as cvs is no longer updated. You can also mount the
-dav url directly on your desktop for read-only access.
-</p>
-<p>
-See our <a href="svn.html">instruction page</a> for details.
-You can find more information about this great new tool at
-<a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">definitive reference book's</a>
-website.
-</p>
-<h3>[ 2004 Jan 26 - status update ]</h3>
-<p>
-There hasn't been much progress of late. Derf has been working on a new encoder, and in doing so
-came up with some suggested bitstreams changes to increase the scope for future encoder
-improvements. These will be integrated into the reference encoder and released as 'alpha 3' for
-testing.
-<p>
-The main hold-up for the beta release is still a draft spec. Everyone's waiting for this because
-it means the format will be frozen and encoded files will be supported by future versions of the
-reference implementation. So if you want to help things along pull out the code and help with the
-documentation, or donate something to help pay for the work.
-<p>
-<div align="center"> <form name="_xclick" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
-method="post">
-<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
-<input type="hidden" name="business" value="donate at xiph.org">
-<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="theora donation">
-<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
-<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00">
-<input type="image" src="http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but04.gif"
-name="submit" alt="Make a donation via PayPal">
-</form>
-</div>
-<h3>[ June 9, 2003 - Theora alpha 2 release ]</h3>
-<p>
-The libtheora reference implementation has reached its 'alpha 2' milestone.
-A lot of bugs have been fixed and new features added, including all the
-planned changes to the bitsteams format.</p>
-<p>
-This is more of an internal milestone than a public release, but we are
-making a <a href="/files/libtheora-1.0alpha2.tar.gz">source tarball</a> available
-for convenience. Nevertheless we recommend using the <a href="svn.html">svn</a> version if possible. This release also requires svn libogg and libvorbis to compile; you might try the <a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_svn.tgz">svn nightly tarball</a> if you don't
-already have these checked out. You will need to build and install the 'ogg' and 'vorbis' modules.
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ May 8, 2003 - VP3 Legacy Codec binaries ]</h3>
-<p>
-Mauricio Piacentini has been maintaining the original VP32 sources upon which theora is
-based. He's pooling his efforts with Xiph a bit and has decided to keep his work in xiph.org
-svn, in the 'vp32' module where the code was originally released. We hope this will help
-concentrate efforts related to theora and bring additional focus to both projects.
-<p>
-He is also making his binary builds for Quicktime 6 and Video for Windows available on
-this site. Please visit the <a href="http://people.xiph.org/~mauricio/">legacy VP3 page</a>
-for file links and complete information.
-</p>
-
-<h3>[ May 7, 2003 - Status update ]</h3>
-<p>
-Things have been slow for some time, so we just wanted to say what's been happening.
-Monty's been busy with unrelated contract work since finishing the zero-copy libogg,
-and no one has stepped up to act as maintainer in the meantime. We've been working
-on a <a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/TheoraTodo">wiki todo</a> for theora and for
-<a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/">xiph generally</a>. So feel free to look (and contribute)
-there.
-</p>
-<h3>[ January 13th, 2003 - Test Suite ]</h3>
-<p>
-We've posted a <a href="http://www.theora.org/test/test.zip">test suite</a> for your encoding pleasure.
-Feel free to post comments and questions to the Theora
-<a href="http://www.theora.org/lists.html">mailing lists.</a>
-</p>
-<h3>[ December 16th, 2002 - Robot Roll Call ]</h3>
-<p>
-The first part of Theora Alpha Two, the delicious Video Layer FAQ is now
-available on the <a href="http://www.theora.org/theorafaq.html">FAQ</a>
-page, written by Dan Miller. The second part is libogg hacking, the
-results of which will be posted just a little after December 27th. Alpha
-Two is really more of an informational release than a big downloadable
-install-fest, so don't fire up the testbeds just yet.
-<p>
-Welcome to theora.org, the official website for Ogg Theora, a video
-codec and integration project maintained and supported by the <a
-href="http://www.xiph.org">Xiph.org Foundation</a> for the benefit of
-all humankind.
-<p>
-What is Theora? Theora will be a video codec that builds upon On2's VP3
-codec. While <a href="http://www.vorbis.com">Ogg Vorbis</a> has reached
-1.0, Theora is currently being integrated into the Ogg multimedia framework, as well as being optimized
-from the VP3 codebase at its heart.
-<p>
-Theora will be released in June of 2003, with three major milestones, the
-first being released today, September 25th, 2002. Today's piece is
-available for download in the 'theora' module of the Xiph.org <a
-href="http://www.theora.org/svn.html">SVN</a> repository, as
-well as a UNIX tarball available <a
-href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/theora_svn_snapshot.tgz">here</a>.
-<p>
-There's a lot of useful information under the hood, so please have a
-look around by using the navigation links at the top of the page. If
-there's anything you think that we need on this page, please <a
-href="http://www.theora.org/contact.html">contact us</a> and let us
-know what you'd like to
-see.
-<p>
-For the legal terms on the usage of the VP3 codec, please check out the
-<a href="http://www.theora.org/svn.html">SVN</a> page. If you would like
-to help sponsor the development of Theora and other open technologies from
-the Xiph.org Foundation, please consider a donation! More information is
-available at <a
-href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/donate.html">this link</a>.
-<p>
-Thanks for stopping by, and happy hacking!
-</p>
-
-</div>
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+<h1>Theora News</h1>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 August 20 - libtheora 1.0 alpha 5 release ]</h3>
+<p>We're pleased to announce a new release of the libtheora reference
+implemenation. This is an incremental update over alpha 4, to draw
+a line under recent work before we start adding optimization work.
+</p><p>
+<p>There are two important bugfixes as well, so we recommend upgrading
+to everyone. This release is source and binary compatible with
+1.0 alpha 4.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.bz2">
+libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.bz2
+</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz">
+libtheora-1.0alpha5.tar.gz
+</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip">
+libtheora-1.0alpha5.zip
+</a>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Changes since the 1.0 alpha 4 release:
+<ul>
+ <li>Fixed bitrate management bugs that caused popping and encode
+ errors.</li>
+ <li>Fixed a crash problem with the theora_state internals not
+ being intialized properly.</li>
+ <li>new theora_granule_shift() utility function</li>
+ <li>dump_video example now makes YUV4MPEG files by default, so
+ the results can be fed back to encoder_example and similar
+ tools. The old behavior is restored with the '-r' switch.</li>
+ <li>./configure now prints a summary</li>
+ <li>simple unit test of the comment api under 'make check'</li>
+ <li>misc code cleanup, warning and leak fixes</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 June 5 - Cinelerra edits Theora ]</h3>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://cinelerra.org">Cinelerra</a> video editor
+which has supported encoding to theora for some time, recently got
+decode support as well. This means you can edit theora video clips
+in Cinelerra!</p>
+
+<p>Thanks to Andraz for adding this new feature.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 May 29 - Live streams of Guadec talks ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://fluendo.com/">Fluendo</a> is again streaming
+all the talks from the <a href="http://2005.guadec.org">Guadec
+conference</a> this year in Ogg Theora format.</p>
+
+<p>Live <a href="http://stream.fluendo.com/guadec/">streams are
+available</a> and will be posted to the
+<a href="http://stream.fluendo.com/archive/6uadec/">archive</a>
+as they are available.</p>
+
+
+<h3>[ 2005 May 23 - systm episodes in Ogg Theora format ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.kevinrose.com/">Kevin Rose</a> of <a
+href="http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/index.html">The Screen Savers</a>
+and G4 tech tv, is doing <a href="http://systm.org/">a new show</a> for
+direct internet distribution.
+The first episode is up and available in a number of formats, including
+Ogg Theora.</p>
+
+<p>Here is a <a
+href="http://www.prolexic.com/systm/systm--0001--warspyingbox--large.theora.ogg.torrent">torrent
+link</a> to the large format
+version.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 May 14 - Cinelerra adds export support for Ogg Theora ]</h3>
+
+<p>The latest CVS version of <a href="http://cinelerra.org/">Cinelerra</a>
+non-linear edit and compositing tool for Linux supports exporting
+video in Ogg Theora format.</p>
+<p>See <a href="http://cvs.cinelerra.org">cvs.cinelerra.org</a> to
+try out the code.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Apr 23 - Elphel Theora camera in Xcell magazine ]</h3>
+
+<p>Andrey Filippov has an
+<a href="http://xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/xcell_53/xc_video53.htm">article</a>
+on his FPGA Theora encoder in <a
+href="http://xilinx.com/publications/xcellonline/">Xcell Journal</a>
+this month. While the earlier <a
+href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3888835064.html">article at LinuxDevices</a>
+focussed on the software, this one covers in more detail the hardware
+and use of the FPGA to achieve the elphel camera's remarkable encoding
+speed.</p>
+
+<p>Andrey and other hackers will be demonstrating the cameras at the <a
+href="http://www.opensource-forum.ru/">Open Source Forum</a> in Moscow
+next weekend.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Apr 17 - Ogg Theora decoder ported to C# ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.ogre3d.org/">Ogre</a> developer pjcast has a C#
+port of the Ogg Theora decoder,
+based primarily on the <a href="http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/">JOrbis</a>
+and <a href="http://www.flumotion.net/jar/cortado/">Cortado</a> java
+decoders.</p>
+
+<p>He reports both video and sound are working, and performance is
+pretty good. The decoder components should be usable under any of
+the C# frameworks, but the example playback application is still
+a bit rough and not portable outside MS Windows.</p>
+
+<p>A <a href="http://www.wreckedgames.com/ogg.zip">development
+snapshot</a> is available for those who would like to
+try out the code.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Mar 24 - Fedora Conference Video ]</h3>
+
+<p>Video from the <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon/">Fedora
+Users & Develper Conference</a> last month in Boston is up in Ogg Theora
+format. The files <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConVideos">are
+available here</a>, or you can get a complete torrents of the
+<a href="http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FUDCon-devel-videos.torrent">Developer</a>
+and <a href="http://torrent.linux.duke.edu/FUDCon-user-videos.torrent">User</a>
+tracks. Versions with only Ogg Vorbis audio are also linked.</p>
+
+<p>It's great to see stuff like this going up.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update</strong> as of 20050405, the direct file links no
+longer work, but the torrent is still available.</p>
+
+<p>In related news, <a href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/">Seth
+Nickell</a> has video of the experimental
+<a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/luminocity/">Luminocity</a> OpenGL
+compositing engine and window manager in Theora. <a
+href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xshots">Video screenshots!</a>
+Quite cool.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Mar 23 - Elphel FPGA camera encodes Theora ]</h3>
+<p>
+Andrey Filippov <a
+href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT3888835064.html">has an
+article</a> today on <a
+href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/">LinuxDevices</a> describing his open
+source hardware theora encoder, embedded in the reconfigurable network
+camera he designed, which is also open source. Now this is what
+computing should be like!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Mar 22 - JRoar streaming server ]</h3>
+<p>
+The <a href="http://www.jcraft.com/jroar/">JRoar</a> streaming server
+now supports Ogg Theora. Has for a while actually, but then have a
+nice set of <a href="http://jroar.jcraft.com:8800/">test streams</a>
+up.
+</p><p>
+JRoar is a pure Java Ogg streaming server from the folks at <a
+href="http://www.jcraft.com/">JCraft</a>. I can serve static files,
+mirror external streams, or serve a source stream from a number of
+clients. It can also serve the
+<a href="http://www.jcraft.com/jorbis/">JOrbis</a> Ogg Vorbis player
+directly, for a pure-url playback experience.
+</p><p>
+Thanks to the JRoar team for putting up such a nice demo of theora.
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Jan 21 - Katiuska 0.7 for KDE released ]</h3>
+<p>
+Katiuska can now rip dvds by simply selecting subtitle and
+audio language + audio and video quality. Katiuska
+also allows you to transcode any video file to
+oggtheora.
+</p>
+<p>
+Requires:<br>
+KDE with kommander1.1development2 <br>
+mplayer <br>
+lsdvd
+</p>
+<p>
+Get it here: <br>
+<a href="http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831">http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Jan 13 - Thoggen 0.2 released ]</h3>
+<p>
+Thoggen is a DVD backup utility ('DVD ripper') for Linux, based on Gtk+ and
+GStreamer. It creates ogg/theora video files and features an extremely easy
+and intuitively to use interface. Thoggen supports picture cropping and
+resizing.
+</p>
+<p>
+Get Thoggen 0.2 from: <br>
+<a href="http://thoggen.net/download/">http://thoggen.net/download/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2005 Jan 3 - GeeXBox live CD supports theora playback ]</h3>
+<p>
+The <a href="http://geexbox.org/">GeeXboX</a> bootable CD media
+player/linux distribution now supports Ogg Theora playback. Thanks guys!
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Dec 24 - Cortado 0.1.0 released ]</h3>
+<p>
+Fluendo announces the <a href="http://www.flumotion.net/src/cortado/cortado-0.1.0.tar.gz">first public release of Cortado</a>, a java-based media player applet.
+Since it's a first release, building it might still be rough around the edges,
+but should be possible using at least Jikes with GCJ classpath libraries, or the Sun compiler.
+You can also download <a href="http://www.flumotion.net/jar/cortado/">built .jar files</a> of this release.
+</p>
+<p>
+Visit <a href="http://mirror.fluendo.com/">Fluendo zoo</a> to have a look at cortado in action.<br />
+Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at Fluendo !
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Dec 15 - libtheora 1.0 alpha 4 release ]</h3>
+<p>We're pleased to announce a new release of the libtheora reference
+implemenation. This is an incremental update over alpha 3, in support
+of <a href="http://icecast.org/">Icecast's</a> use of some new utility
+calls to provide theora streaming support.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.bz2">
+ libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.bz2
+</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.gz">
+ libtheora-1.0alpha4.tar.gz
+</a><br><a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha4.zip">
+ libtheora-1.0alpha4.zip
+</a>
+</blockquote>
+<p>Changes since the alpha3 release:
+<ul>
+ <li>first draft of the Theora I Format Specification</li>
+ <li>API documentation generated from theora.h with Doxygen</li>
+ <li>fix a double-update bug in the motion analysis</li>
+ <li>apply the loop filter before filling motion vector border
+ in the reference frame</li>
+ <li>new utility functions:
+ <tt>theora_packet_isheader(),</tt>
+ <tt>theora_packet_iskeyframe()</tt>, and
+ <tt>theora_granule_frame()</tt></li>
+ <li>optional support for building without floating point</li>
+ <li>optional support for building without encode support</li>
+ <li>various build and packaging fixes</li>
+ <li>pkg-config support</li>
+ <li>SymbianOS build support</li>
+</ul>
+</p>
+<p>We still plan to make incompatible api changes before the first beta
+release, but this new alpha provides a stable base including all the
+work that has happened up to those changes.</p>
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Dec 11 - Theora support in LiVES ]</h3>
+<p>Theora is now fully supported in LiVES is a Video Editing System (LiVES), as of version 0.9.1.
+If you are interested in having a nice, user friendly interface for
+testing out theora, then download LiVES and try it.<br>
+<a href="http://lives.sourceforge.net"> (http://lives.sourceforge.net)</a></p>
+
+<p>The encoder plugin for theora is written in Python and can be found here:
+<a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lives/lives-plugins/marcos-encoders/theora_encoder.py"> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lives/lives-plugins/marcos-encoders/theora_encoder.py</a></p>
+
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Dec 6 - Fluendo funds RTP streaming of Theora and Vorbis ]</h3>
+<p>Streaming media startup <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/">Fluendo.com</a>
+announced today they will be funding a spec and reference implementation
+for encapsulation of Theora video and Vorbis audio over the RTP streaming
+protocol, important for multicast, digital broadcast, and conferencing
+applications.</p>
+<p>A <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/press/releases/PR-2004-03.html">press
+release</a> was issued this morning.</p>
+<p>While HTTP streaming of Ogg-encapsulated multimedia has been supported
+for most of the history of our free codecs, RTP support is an oft-requested
+feature that we've never had a good solution for. We're very happy to
+see Fluendo driving this new work.</p>
+<p>Phil Kerr will be managing the developement of the new drafts. The
+development process is open, with discussion taking place in the new
+<a href="http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/xiph-rtp">xiph-rtp</a>
+mailing list. Please join if you're interested in these issues.
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Nov 21 - Theora encoder, Katiuska 0.6.1, released ]</h3>
+<p>Katiuska is a theora encoder frontend that runs on KDE. It uses ffmpeg2theora, mencoder,
+the encoder_example that comes with the theora libs and a little gpl bash script. It can
+encode mostly any kind of video that ffmpeg and mencoder can (avi, mpeg4 and 2, quicktime etc).</p>
+<p>On a KDE system, first install libtheora (see navigation links to the left).</p>
+<p>Make sure Kommander is installed: <br>
+<a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kommander/kommander-executor-1.1devel2.tar.bz2?download">
+http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/kommander/kommander-executor-1.1devel2.tar.bz2?download</a></p>
+<p>Then download Katiuska, and install it by unpacking it, change to the katiuska directory, use "su" to
+login as root, and then enter the command "./setup.sh". Katiuska can be downloaded from: <br>
+<a href="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831">http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17831</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Nov 20 - Windows installer for RealPlayer plugins ]</h3>
+<p>A Windows installer for version 0.5 of the Helix Theora &
+Vorbis plugins for RealPlayer 10/10.5 and RealOne Player has been released. There are no code
+changes from the 0.5 zip file that was posted earlier. This just replaces the
+zip file with an installer. You can get the installer at:</p>
+<a href="https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/713/xiphplins_win32_0_5.exe">
+https://helixcommunity.org/download.php/713/xiphplins_win32_0_5.exe</a>
+<br>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Nov 11 - Flumotion streaming media server updated ]</h3>
+<p>Flumotion 0.1.3, <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/">Fluendo</a>'s
+streaming media server based on Theora, was
+released today.</p>
+<p>It is available from <a
+href="http://www.fluendo.com/downloads">http://www.fluendo.com/downloads</a>.</p>
+<p>Packages for FC3 are available from the GStreamer repository.</p>
+<p><i>This release features a lot of end-user polishing
+based on the feedback from our brave testers. If something didn't work
+in a previous release, please try this one and give us some
+feedback.</i></p>
+
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Oct 30 - new Theora and Vorbis plugins for RealPlayer 10 ]</h3>
+<p>New versions of the Helix Theora and Vorbis plugins are now available for
+RealPlayer 10. The major feature of this release is adding chaining support.</p>
+The new plugins can be downloaded at: <br>
+<a href="https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7&release_id=361">
+https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7&release_id=361</a>
+<br>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Oct 29 - Kino 0.7.4 exports in Ogg Theora format ]</h3>
+<p>Kino, an actively developed non-linear video editing program for Linux, now supports the export of video in
+Ogg Theora format.</p>
+The Kino website is at: <a href="http://kino.schirmacher.de/">http://kino.schirmacher.de/</a>
+<br>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Oct 20 - Flumotion streaming media server ]</h3>
+<p>The first release for public consumption of Fluendo's Flumotion streaming media server
+is available.</p>
+<p>Yes, there will be bugs. Feel free to report them. But there are also
+lots of cool features, for which Fluendo owes a debt of gratitude to both the
+GStreamer and Twisted developers.</p>
+The Fluendo website is at: <a href="http://www.fluendo.com">http://www.fluendo.com</a> <br>
+The development site is at <a href="https://core.fluendo.com/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi">
+https://core.fluendo.com/trac/cgi-bin/trac.cgi</a> <br>
+The tarball is at: <a href="http://www.fluendo.com/downloads/flumotion-0.1.0.tar.bz2">
+http://www.fluendo.com/downloads/flumotion-0.1.0.tar.bz2</a>
+<br>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Sept 30 - Fluendo test stream ]</h3>
+<p>Fluendo has posted a stable test stream for those wanting to try
+theora's network aspect. It's mostly just a webcam of their office,
+and often rather dull at night (or when the power is out) but it's nice
+to have something that's generally available for testing. Thanks,
+Fluendo!</p>
+<p>The stream url is
+<a
+href="http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/">http://mirror.fluendo.com:8800/</a>,
+or click <a href="fluendo-theoratest.pls">here</a> to open the stream in
+your player application.
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Sept 28 - v2v posts theora content ]</h3>
+<p>Florian Schneider has posted video from the <a
+href="http://neuro.kein.org/">neuro</a> conference this past February in
+Munich, all in theora format. This includes a <a
+href="http://papaja.kein.org/download/v2v_neuro-img.ogg.torrent">panel
+discussion</a> with Enno Patalas, revered film preservationist; Brian
+Holmes; Sebastian Lütgert; and Ralph Giles, one of the theora
+developers. General documentation of the conference and its other
+sessions is available <a
+href="http://eu.d-a-s-h.org/neurodoc">here</a>.</p>
+<p>Florian has also posted versions of a programme he produced for the
+German French tv station arte. Torrents for <a
+href="http://papaja.kein.org/download/v2v_wastun-unorg.ogg.torrent">unorg</a>
+and <a
+href="http://papaja.kein.org/download/v2v_wastun-world.ogg.torrent">world</a>
+are available.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Sept 11 - interview with Fluendo CEO, Julien Moutte ]</h3>
+<p>OSNews has an in inteview with Julien Moutte discussing upcoming
+products and services based
+on Ogg Theora, including a java version of the Theora client that
+will allow viewing of Ogg Theora format video inside web browsing windows. <br>
+<a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8218">http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8218</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Aug 28 - kfile_theora 0.2 announced ]</h3>
+
+<p>kfile_theora is a KDE kfile plugin that will display infos about ogg theora video files in konqueror & meta data dialog.<br>
+ Currently gives info about size, length, quality and some audio settings.<br>
+ Requires libogg, libvorbis and libtheora.
+ </p>
+ <p>For more information, please go to:<br>
+ <a href="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=15553">http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=15553</a>
+ </p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Aug 25 - Richard Stallman on software patents ]</h3>
+
+<p>Videos in Ogg Theora format of Richard Stallman of
+FSF + Christian Engström and Marco Schulze of FFII visiting the
+Estonian Information Technology College, and
+talking about the danger of patenting software have been put on the net.</p>
+
+<p>General info:<br>
+<a href="http://kwiki.ffii.org/Tallinn040722En">http://kwiki.ffii.org/Tallinn040722En</a><br>
+<a href="http://www.itcollege.ee/koostoo/avalikudloengudarhiiv.php">http://www.itcollege.ee/koostoo/avalikudloengudarhiiv.php</a></p>
+
+<p>Videos themselves:<br>
+<a href="http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_1.ogg">http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_1.ogg</a><br />
+<a href="http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_2.ogg">http://www.itcollege.ee/dl/OGG/avaloeng10_2.ogg</a></p>
+
+<p>Mirror:<br>
+<a href="http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_1.ogg">http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_1.ogg</a><br>
+<a href="http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_2.ogg">http://www.nightlabs.de/anti_swpat/BalticTour/040722/avaloeng10_2.ogg</a></p>
+
+<p>Videos are encoded as described in ogg-theora-microhowto. They are half of the
+original size, and qualities are Vorbis: 2/10 and Theora: 4/10.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Aug 21 - aKademy broadcast in theora ]</h3>
+
+<p>Streaming startup <a href="http://fluendo.com/">fluendo.com</a> is doing it again.<br />
+This time live from the <a href="http://conference2004.kde.org/">KDE World summit</a> in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
+</p>
+<p>During the conference, the live streams are available from <a href="http://streamingserver.akademy.kde.org/">http://streamingserver.akademy.kde.org/</a> along with viewer suggestions.<br />
+Archives are available at <a href="http://ktown.kde.org/akademy/">http://ktown.kde.org/akademy/</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Jun 29 - Guadec broadcast in theora ]</h3>
+
+<p>Streaming startup <a href="http://fluendo.com/">fluendo.com</a> has
+been demonstrating their encoding and server application at <a
+href="http://guadec.org/">GUADEC</a> this year, broadcasting the
+presentations <strong>live in theora</strong>. This is a great
+demonstration of open media technology. Congratulations to fluendo and a
+big thanks to everyone who made this possible!</p>
+<p>During the conference, the live streams are available from
+<a href="http://stream1.hia.no/">http://stream1.hia.no/</a> along with
+viewer suggestions. Archives are available at the same url if you
+missed something.</p>
+<p>What a change a year makes. Last year, we were very sad to see <a
+href="2003.guadec.org">GU4DEC 2003</a> broadcasting the talks in
+the proprietary RealVideo format. Now, not only are the talks in a free
+video format, but you can <a
+href="https://helixcommunity.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7">use
+RealPlayer</a> to watch them!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Jun 15 - Creative Commons videos ]</h3>
+
+<p>
+In honor of our slashdotting, we've made torrents available for
+<a href="torrents/cc-theora-small.torrent">small</a> and
+<a href="torrents/cc-theora-large.torrent">large</a> versions of
+the top three winning promotion videos for the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative
+Commons</a> licenses, encoded in theora. Free content in a free format.
+</p><p>
+We also have a feature film, <a href="http://fourthwall.creativecommons.org/">David Ball's</a>
+edgy relationship drama <a
+href="http://fourthwall.creativecommons.org/honey/"><em>Honey</em></a>.
+You can download both <a href="torrents/Honey-small.torrent">small</a> and
+<a href="torrents/Honey-large.torrent">large</a> versions via bittorrent.
+These are distributed under an <a
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/">Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial</a>
+license.
+</p><p>
+Share and enjoy!
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Jun 1 - Theora I bitstream freeze ]</h3>
+
+<p>
+Big news. The Theora I bitstream format is now frozen! This means it's safe
+to start distributing videos in the theora format.
+</p><p>
+<em>Files produced by the alpha 3 reference encoder will be supported by
+all future decoders</em>.
+</p><p>
+Beta 1 was going to be the official freeze point, but was delayed by
+continuing work on the draft specification document; however
+we have reviewed enough of the design in writing the spec that we no
+longer need to reserve the right to make corrections to
+the encoder behavior.
+</p><p>
+So go ahead, there's no reason to delay adopting a free alternative any more!
+</p>
+<h3>[ 2004 Mar 20 - Theora alpha 3 release ]</h3>
+<p>
+We're pleased to announce the alpha 3 release of the theora reference
+implementation.</p>
+<blockquote>
+<a href="http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.bz2">
+ http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.bz2
+</a><br><a href="http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.gz">
+ http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.tar.gz
+</a><br><a href="http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.zip">
+ http://theora.org/files/libtheora-1.0alpha3.zip</a>
+</blockquote>
+<p>
+The main differences over alpha 2:
+</p>
+<ul>
+<li> The encoded image has been flipped to match the sense used in VP3,
+ with the origin at the lower left. This allows lossless transcoding
+ of VP3 content.
+</li>
+<li> The decoder data tables included in the bitstream header are more
+ complete and have more scope for future encoder improvements.
+</li>
+<li> Some experimental tools are available in the win32 directory,
+ including a transcoder for avi vp3 files.
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>
+We hope there were be no more incompatible bitstream changes, but as
+with previous alpha releases we make no promises that the format will
+not change again.
+</p><p>
+Experimental playback support is now available (separately) for
+Helix/Realplayer 10, Xine and mplayer; you might look at those if you
+want a more full-featured player. Be sure to use an alpha-3 compatible
+version.
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2004 Mar 20 - source now in subversion ]</h3>
+
+<p>
+We've switched our version control system to <a
+href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">subversion</a>
+from cvs, along with all the other Xiph.org projects.
+</p><p>
+Please make a fresh checkout if you're following the
+development tree:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<tt>svn checkout http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora</tt>
+</blockquote>
+<p>
+as cvs is no longer updated. You can also mount the
+dav url directly on your desktop for read-only access.
+</p>
+<p>
+See our <a href="svn.html">instruction page</a> for details.
+You can find more information about this great new tool at
+<a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">definitive reference book's</a>
+website.
+</p>
+<h3>[ 2004 Jan 26 - status update ]</h3>
+<p>
+There hasn't been much progress of late. Derf has been working on a new encoder, and in doing so
+came up with some suggested bitstreams changes to increase the scope for future encoder
+improvements. These will be integrated into the reference encoder and released as 'alpha 3' for
+testing.
+<p>
+The main hold-up for the beta release is still a draft spec. Everyone's waiting for this because
+it means the format will be frozen and encoded files will be supported by future versions of the
+reference implementation. So if you want to help things along pull out the code and help with the
+documentation, or donate something to help pay for the work.
+<p>
+<div align="center"> <form name="_xclick" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"
+method="post">
+<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
+<input type="hidden" name="business" value="donate at xiph.org">
+<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="theora donation">
+<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD">
+<input type="hidden" name="amount" value="10.00">
+<input type="image" src="http://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/x-click-but04.gif"
+name="submit" alt="Make a donation via PayPal">
+</form>
+</div>
+<h3>[ June 9, 2003 - Theora alpha 2 release ]</h3>
+<p>
+The libtheora reference implementation has reached its 'alpha 2' milestone.
+A lot of bugs have been fixed and new features added, including all the
+planned changes to the bitsteams format.</p>
+<p>
+This is more of an internal milestone than a public release, but we are
+making a <a href="/files/libtheora-1.0alpha2.tar.gz">source tarball</a> available
+for convenience. Nevertheless we recommend using the <a href="svn.html">svn</a> version if possible. This release also requires svn libogg and libvorbis to compile; you might try the <a href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/vorbis_nightly_svn.tgz">svn nightly tarball</a> if you don't
+already have these checked out. You will need to build and install the 'ogg' and 'vorbis' modules.
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ May 8, 2003 - VP3 Legacy Codec binaries ]</h3>
+<p>
+Mauricio Piacentini has been maintaining the original VP32 sources upon which theora is
+based. He's pooling his efforts with Xiph a bit and has decided to keep his work in xiph.org
+svn, in the 'vp32' module where the code was originally released. We hope this will help
+concentrate efforts related to theora and bring additional focus to both projects.
+<p>
+He is also making his binary builds for Quicktime 6 and Video for Windows available on
+this site. Please visit the <a href="http://people.xiph.org/~mauricio/">legacy VP3 page</a>
+for file links and complete information.
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ May 7, 2003 - Status update ]</h3>
+<p>
+Things have been slow for some time, so we just wanted to say what's been happening.
+Monty's been busy with unrelated contract work since finishing the zero-copy libogg,
+and no one has stepped up to act as maintainer in the meantime. We've been working
+on a <a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/TheoraTodo">wiki todo</a> for theora and for
+<a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/">xiph generally</a>. So feel free to look (and contribute)
+there.
+</p>
+<h3>[ January 13th, 2003 - Test Suite ]</h3>
+<p>
+We've posted a <a href="http://www.theora.org/test/test.zip">test suite</a> for your encoding pleasure.
+Feel free to post comments and questions to the Theora
+<a href="http://www.theora.org/lists.html">mailing lists.</a>
+</p>
+<h3>[ December 16th, 2002 - Robot Roll Call ]</h3>
+<p>
+The first part of Theora Alpha Two, the delicious Video Layer FAQ is now
+available on the <a href="http://www.theora.org/theorafaq.html">FAQ</a>
+page, written by Dan Miller. The second part is libogg hacking, the
+results of which will be posted just a little after December 27th. Alpha
+Two is really more of an informational release than a big downloadable
+install-fest, so don't fire up the testbeds just yet.
+<p>
+Welcome to theora.org, the official website for Ogg Theora, a video
+codec and integration project maintained and supported by the <a
+href="http://www.xiph.org">Xiph.org Foundation</a> for the benefit of
+all humankind.
+<p>
+What is Theora? Theora will be a video codec that builds upon On2's VP3
+codec. While <a href="http://www.vorbis.com">Ogg Vorbis</a> has reached
+1.0, Theora is currently being integrated into the Ogg multimedia framework, as well as being optimized
+from the VP3 codebase at its heart.
+<p>
+Theora will be released in June of 2003, with three major milestones, the
+first being released today, September 25th, 2002. Today's piece is
+available for download in the 'theora' module of the Xiph.org <a
+href="http://www.theora.org/svn.html">SVN</a> repository, as
+well as a UNIX tarball available <a
+href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/theora_svn_snapshot.tgz">here</a>.
+<p>
+There's a lot of useful information under the hood, so please have a
+look around by using the navigation links at the top of the page. If
+there's anything you think that we need on this page, please <a
+href="http://www.theora.org/contact.html">contact us</a> and let us
+know what you'd like to
+see.
+<p>
+For the legal terms on the usage of the VP3 codec, please check out the
+<a href="http://www.theora.org/svn.html">SVN</a> page. If you would like
+to help sponsor the development of Theora and other open technologies from
+the Xiph.org Foundation, please consider a donation! More information is
+available at <a
+href="http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/donate.html">this link</a>.
+<p>
+Thanks for stopping by, and happy hacking!
+</p>
+
+</div>
+
+
+<!-- End page content -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
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-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
-<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
- <title>Xiph.org</title>
-<style type="text/css">
-<!--
-
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-</style>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
-<!-- All your page content goes here -->
-
-<h1>Vorbis audio compression</h1>
-
-<p>
-Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free,
-general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality
-(8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and
-variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the
-same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC),
-and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3,
-MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The bitstream format for Vorbis I was frozen Monday, May 8th 2000.
-All bitstreams encoded since will remain compatible with all future
-releases of Vorbis.
-</p>
-
-<h2>Resources</h2>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Visit <a href="http://vorbis.com/">Vorbis.com</a> to get set up to
-use vorbis, find music, and more.</li>
-<li><a href="http://vorbis.com/faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
-<li>The <strong>libvorbis</strong> reference implementation provides
-both a standard encoder and decoder under a BSD license.
- [<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/">Source download</a>]
- [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis/">SVN trunk</a>]
-</li>
-<li>The <strong>Tremor</strong> reference decoder provides an
-integer-only implementation of the decoder for embedded devices
- [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/">SVN trunk</a>]
- [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/branches/lowmem-branch/Tremor/">low-memory branch</a>]
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+ <title>Xiph.org</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+<!--
+
+-->
+</style>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<h1>Vorbis audio compression</h1>
+
+<p>
+Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free,
+general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality
+(8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and
+variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the
+same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC),
+and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3,
+MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The bitstream format for Vorbis I was frozen Monday, May 8th 2000.
+All bitstreams encoded since will remain compatible with all future
+releases of Vorbis.
+</p>
+
+<h2>Resources</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Visit <a href="http://vorbis.com/">Vorbis.com</a> to get set up to
+use vorbis, find music, and more.</li>
+<li><a href="http://vorbis.com/faq">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<ul>
+<li>The <strong>libvorbis</strong> reference implementation provides
+both a standard encoder and decoder under a BSD license.
+ [<a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/">Source download</a>]
+ [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/vorbis/">SVN trunk</a>]
+</li>
+<li>The <strong>Tremor</strong> reference decoder provides an
+integer-only implementation of the decoder for embedded devices
+ [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/">SVN trunk</a>]
+ [<a href="http://svn.xiph.org/branches/lowmem-branch/Tremor/">low-memory branch</a>]
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
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-<title>Xiph.org: naming</title>
-<style type="text/css">
-<!--
-
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-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/xiphbar.include" -->
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
-<!-- All your page content goes here -->
-
-<h1>What's in a name?</h1>
-
-<h2>
- <a href="index.html">
- <img src="/images/logos/white-xifish.gif" alt="Xiph.Org"/>
- <img src="/images/logos/xiphword2.gif" alt=""/>
- </a>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_swordtail"><i>Xiphophorus helleri</i></a> is a small aquarium fish (the common
-Swordtail). What's special about it? Not much, really. The Xiph.Org
-logo doesn't even look anything like a real swordtail, but it's a logo
-that's been in use a long time.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-What the name <em>does</em> have is the minimum requirement of one
-letter 'X' for a technology-related organization. That fact that it's
-impossible to spell is an added bonus.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The Xiphophorus name was later shortened to Xiph.org. English speakers
-tend to pronounce this [zĭf] (short /i/) while non-English speakers
-favor [ksif]. Either is acceptable.
-</p>
-
-
-<h2>
- <a href="/ogg/index.html">
- <img src="/images/logos/white-ogg.gif" alt="OggSquish"/>
- <img src="/images/logos/oggword2.gif" alt=""/>
- </a>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-The Ogg project began with a few-weekend-attempt at a simple audio
-compression package as part of a larger project in 1993. At the time,
-the software was called 'Squish'. The project and the general problem
-of music compression became a personal fascination, and Squish took on
-a life of its own far beyond the proportions of the original digital
-music studio project of which it was to be part.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-A few months after the first Squish webpage, I received a polite but
-firm letter informing me that Squish is a registered trademark (for a
-mail transport system). Mike Whitson, a contributor to the cause in
-the early days, suggested the name 'OggSquish' as a replacement.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-An 'Ogg' (pronounced [ŏg]) is a tactical maneuver from the network game 'Netrek' that
-has entered common usage in a wider sense. From the definition:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the
-drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set
-that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and
-almost ogged that oncoming car."</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(see the
-<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010222120446/info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/o/ogg.html">rest of the</a>
-<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/ogg.html">definition</a>
-for the original Netrek usage.)
-</p>
-
-<p>
-At the time Ogg was starting out, most personal computers were i386s
-and the i486 was new. I remember thinking about the algorithms I
-was considering, "Woah, that's heavyweight. People are going to need
-a 486 to run that..." While the software ogged the music, there
-wasn't much processor left for anything else.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-These days, Ogg has come to stand for the file format that developed
-from that early compression work and is part of the larger Xiph.org
-multimedia project; Squish became just the name of one of the
-Ogg codecs.
-For that reason, we usually just refer to it as Ogg when there's no
-Netrek context nearby. The Ogg project has nothing to do with the
-common surname 'Ogg'. Nor is it named after 'Nanny Ogg' from the
-Terry Pratchett book <cite>Wyrd Sisters</cite>.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The 'Thor-and-the-Snake' logo is drawn somewhat from Norse mythology;
-the real symbolism is the sine-curve shape of the snake. Thor is
-hefting Mjollnir about to compress the periodic signal
-Jörmungandr... See, it all makes sense.
-</p>
-
-<h2>
- <a href="ogg/vorbis/index.html">
- <img src="/images/logos/white-ogg.gif" alt="Ogg Vorbis"/>
- <img src="/images/logos/vorbisword2.gif" alt=""/>
- </a>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Vorbis, on the other hand <em>is</em> named after the Terry Pratchett
-character from the book <cite>Small Gods</cite>. The name holds some
-significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-<a href="ogg/vorbis/index.html">Ogg Vorbis</a> (pronouned [vōr'bĭs]) was the first CODEC in
-developed as part of the Xiph.org multimedia project, begun
-immediately after <a href="about.html#fraunhofer">Fraunhofer issued
-its 'Letter of Infringement' to freeware MP3 encoder efforts</a>.
-Vorbis is intended to go head-to-head with MPEG codecs like AAC
-and has historically achieved comparable or better quality.
-</p>
-
-<h2>
- <a href="paranoia/index.html">
- <img src="/images/logos/white-para.gif" alt="paranoia IV"/>
- <img src="/images/logos/paraword2.gif" alt=""/>
- </a>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Paranoia IV is the upcoming release in the logical progression of
-Paranoia, Paranoia II, Paranoia III... Release IV is a cross platform
-library project that combines a portable SCSI packet command
-interfaces with platform-independant code to find specific hardware
-devices. On top of these it places specialized interfaces that wrap
-the hardware in an error correcting layer to make up for deficiencies
-in specific device examples. Paranoia IV provides the CDDA and error
-correction engines to cdparanoia series 10.
-</p>
-
-<h2>
- <a href="paranoia/index.html">
- <img src="/images/logos/white-para.gif" alt="cdparanoia"/>
- <img src="/images/logos/cdparaword2.gif" alt=""/>
- </a>
-</h2>
-
-<p>
-Cdparanoia is the error correcting compact disc digital audio
-extraction (CDDA DAE) tool built using Paranoia III (currently, up to
-release 9) and Paranoia IV (release 10, to be announced).
-</p>
-
-<p>
-The name should be somewhat self-explanatory; the logo is a bit
-weirder. Dubbed 'the All-Seeing Laser Playback Head of Omniscience'
-it's a takeoff of the eye-and-pyramid symbol of wisdom. Think you've
-seen it before and can't quite place where? Look on the back of a US
-one dollar bill.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-An interesting note on the 'eye-in-the-pyramid' symbol from Nathan Myers:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>In the [this] page, you can explain the
-"eye in the pyramid" symbol as indicating that which
-exists solely because people believe it exists.
-(Money and gods are examples, so it being on the
-dollar bill is appropriate.)</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>
-The eye is placed on a starburst pattern emanating from the hub area
-of a compact disc.</p>
-
-
-<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagebottom.include" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+
+<title>Xiph.org: naming</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+<!--
+
+-->
+</style>
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/xiphbar.include" -->
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!-- All your page content goes here -->
+
+<h1>What's in a name?</h1>
+
+<h2>
+ <a href="index.html">
+ <img src="/images/logos/white-xifish.gif" alt="Xiph.Org"/>
+ <img src="/images/logos/xiphword2.gif" alt=""/>
+ </a>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_swordtail"><i>Xiphophorus helleri</i></a> is a small aquarium fish (the common
+Swordtail). What's special about it? Not much, really. The Xiph.Org
+logo doesn't even look anything like a real swordtail, but it's a logo
+that's been in use a long time.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+What the name <em>does</em> have is the minimum requirement of one
+letter 'X' for a technology-related organization. That fact that it's
+impossible to spell is an added bonus.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Xiphophorus name was later shortened to Xiph.org. English speakers
+tend to pronounce this [zĭf] (short /i/) while non-English speakers
+favor [ksif]. Either is acceptable.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>
+ <a href="/ogg/index.html">
+ <img src="/images/logos/white-ogg.gif" alt="OggSquish"/>
+ <img src="/images/logos/oggword2.gif" alt=""/>
+ </a>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+The Ogg project began with a few-weekend-attempt at a simple audio
+compression package as part of a larger project in 1993. At the time,
+the software was called 'Squish'. The project and the general problem
+of music compression became a personal fascination, and Squish took on
+a life of its own far beyond the proportions of the original digital
+music studio project of which it was to be part.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A few months after the first Squish webpage, I received a polite but
+firm letter informing me that Squish is a registered trademark (for a
+mail transport system). Mike Whitson, a contributor to the cause in
+the early days, suggested the name 'OggSquish' as a replacement.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+An 'Ogg' (pronounced [ŏg]) is a tactical maneuver from the network game 'Netrek' that
+has entered common usage in a wider sense. From the definition:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>3. To do anything forcefully, possibly without consideration of the
+drain on future resources. "I guess I'd better go ogg the problem set
+that's due tomorrow." "Whoops! I looked down at the map for a sec and
+almost ogged that oncoming car."</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>(see the
+<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20010222120446/info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/o/ogg.html">rest of the</a>
+<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/O/ogg.html">definition</a>
+for the original Netrek usage.)
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the time Ogg was starting out, most personal computers were i386s
+and the i486 was new. I remember thinking about the algorithms I
+was considering, "Woah, that's heavyweight. People are going to need
+a 486 to run that..." While the software ogged the music, there
+wasn't much processor left for anything else.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+These days, Ogg has come to stand for the file format that developed
+from that early compression work and is part of the larger Xiph.org
+multimedia project; Squish became just the name of one of the
+Ogg codecs.
+For that reason, we usually just refer to it as Ogg when there's no
+Netrek context nearby. The Ogg project has nothing to do with the
+common surname 'Ogg'. Nor is it named after 'Nanny Ogg' from the
+Terry Pratchett book <cite>Wyrd Sisters</cite>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The 'Thor-and-the-Snake' logo is drawn somewhat from Norse mythology;
+the real symbolism is the sine-curve shape of the snake. Thor is
+hefting Mjollnir about to compress the periodic signal
+Jörmungandr... See, it all makes sense.
+</p>
+
+<h2>
+ <a href="ogg/vorbis/index.html">
+ <img src="/images/logos/white-ogg.gif" alt="Ogg Vorbis"/>
+ <img src="/images/logos/vorbisword2.gif" alt=""/>
+ </a>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Vorbis, on the other hand <em>is</em> named after the Terry Pratchett
+character from the book <cite>Small Gods</cite>. The name holds some
+significance, but it's an indirect, uninteresting story.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<a href="ogg/vorbis/index.html">Ogg Vorbis</a> (pronouned [vōr'bĭs]) was the first CODEC in
+developed as part of the Xiph.org multimedia project, begun
+immediately after <a href="about.html#fraunhofer">Fraunhofer issued
+its 'Letter of Infringement' to freeware MP3 encoder efforts</a>.
+Vorbis is intended to go head-to-head with MPEG codecs like AAC
+and has historically achieved comparable or better quality.
+</p>
+
+<h2>
+ <a href="paranoia/index.html">
+ <img src="/images/logos/white-para.gif" alt="paranoia IV"/>
+ <img src="/images/logos/paraword2.gif" alt=""/>
+ </a>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Paranoia IV is the upcoming release in the logical progression of
+Paranoia, Paranoia II, Paranoia III... Release IV is a cross platform
+library project that combines a portable SCSI packet command
+interfaces with platform-independant code to find specific hardware
+devices. On top of these it places specialized interfaces that wrap
+the hardware in an error correcting layer to make up for deficiencies
+in specific device examples. Paranoia IV provides the CDDA and error
+correction engines to cdparanoia series 10.
+</p>
+
+<h2>
+ <a href="paranoia/index.html">
+ <img src="/images/logos/white-para.gif" alt="cdparanoia"/>
+ <img src="/images/logos/cdparaword2.gif" alt=""/>
+ </a>
+</h2>
+
+<p>
+Cdparanoia is the error correcting compact disc digital audio
+extraction (CDDA DAE) tool built using Paranoia III (currently, up to
+release 9) and Paranoia IV (release 10, to be announced).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The name should be somewhat self-explanatory; the logo is a bit
+weirder. Dubbed 'the All-Seeing Laser Playback Head of Omniscience'
+it's a takeoff of the eye-and-pyramid symbol of wisdom. Think you've
+seen it before and can't quite place where? Look on the back of a US
+one dollar bill.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+An interesting note on the 'eye-in-the-pyramid' symbol from Nathan Myers:</p>
+<blockquote>
+<p>In the [this] page, you can explain the
+"eye in the pyramid" symbol as indicating that which
+exists solely because people believe it exists.
+(Money and gods are examples, so it being on the
+dollar bill is appropriate.)</p>
+</blockquote>
+<p>
+The eye is placed on a starburst pattern emanating from the hub area
+of a compact disc.</p>
+
+
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