[xiph-commits] r13446 - in websites/theora.org: . css images images/logos

maikmerten at svn.xiph.org maikmerten at svn.xiph.org
Sun Aug 5 10:27:23 PDT 2007


Author: maikmerten
Date: 2007-08-05 10:27:22 -0700 (Sun, 05 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 13446

Added:
   websites/theora.org/css/
   websites/theora.org/css/screen.css
   websites/theora.org/images/
   websites/theora.org/images/logos/
   websites/theora.org/images/logos/fish_xiph_org.png
   websites/theora.org/images/logos/xiph.ico
   websites/theora.org/test.shtml.en
Log:
theora.org webpage: Test files to test migrating to the xiph.org webpage 
template system


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+ at import url(/common/xiphbar.css);
+
+body {
+  margin: 0;
+  padding-bottom: 30px;
+  font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
+  background-color: #ffffff;
+  color: #333333;
+}
+
+a {
+  color: #3366cc;
+}
+
+img {
+  border: 0;
+}
+
+#thepage {
+  margin-left: auto;
+  margin-right: auto;
+  width: 840px;
+}
+
+#xiphlogo {
+  margin: 30px 0 16px 8px;
+}
+
+#navbar {
+  border: 0;
+  margin-top: 0px;
+  padding-right: 10px;
+  text-align: right;
+  border-right: 1px solid #9FC0D7;
+  width: 130px;
+  float: left;
+}
+
+#navbar ul {
+  margin: 0 0 1em 0;
+  padding: 0;
+}
+
+#navbar li {
+  text-align: right;
+  font-size: .7em;
+  line-height: 1.4;
+  list-style: none;
+}
+
+#navbar li a {
+  font-weight: bold;
+  color: #3366CC;
+  text-decoration: none;
+  line-height: 0;
+}
+
+#navbar li a:hover {
+  text-decoration: underline;
+}
+
+#content {
+  margin-top: 8px;
+  padding-left: 8px;
+  border-left: 1px solid #9FC0D7;
+  font-size: .75em;
+  margin-left: 140px;
+}
+
+#content p {
+  line-height: 1.4;
+}
+
+h1, h1 a {
+  font-weight: bold;
+  color: #ff9900;
+  margin: 1.3em 0 8px 0;
+}
+
+h1 {
+  font-size: 1.3em;
+}
+
+h2, h2 a {
+  font-weight: bold;
+  color: #ff9900;
+  margin: 1.3em 0 8px 0;
+}
+
+h2 {
+  font-size: 1.2em;
+}
+
+h3, h3 a {
+  font-weight: bold;
+  color: #ff9900;
+  margin: 1.3em 0 8px 0;
+}
+
+h3 {
+  font-size: 1.1em;
+}
+
+li {
+  line-height: 1.4;
+}
+
+#copyright {
+  margin-top: 30px;
+  line-height: 1.5em;
+  text-align: center;
+  font-size: .6em;
+  color: #888888;
+  clear: both;
+}

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Added: websites/theora.org/test.shtml.en
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--- websites/theora.org/test.shtml.en	                        (rev 0)
+++ websites/theora.org/test.shtml.en	2007-08-05 17:27:22 UTC (rev 13446)
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+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/header.include" -->
+<!-- Enter custom page information and styles here -->
+  <title>Theora.org :: main - Theora, video for everyone</title>
+<style type="text/css">
+<!--
+.newslist {
+	margin: 0 0 2.64em 0;
+	padding: 0;
+}
+
+.newslist li {
+	margin-bottom: .72em;
+	list-style: none;
+	font-size: .94em;
+	line-height: 1.4;
+}
+
+.newslist a {
+	color: #3366CC;
+}
+
+.xiph {
+	color: #FF9900;
+	font-weight: bold;
+}
+
+.resources ul {
+	margin: 0;
+	padding: 0;
+}
+
+.resources li {
+	margin-bottom: .4em;
+	list-style: none;
+	font-size: .94em;
+	line-height: 1.4;
+}
+-->
+</style>
+</head>
+<body>
+<!--#include virtual="/common/xiphbar.include" -->
+
+<!--#include virtual="/ssi/pagetop.include" -->
+<!--  All your page content goes here  -->
+
+<h3>[ 2007 June 17 - Debconf 7 webcasts ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://debconf7.debconf.org/">DebConf(7)</a> is happening 
+this week, with <a href="http://streams.video.debconf.org:8000/">live 
+streams</a> available. Archives will be <a href="http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/">posted</a> 
+overnight.</p>
+
+<p>They have an <a 
+href="http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf7/videoteam/Setup#Setup">impressive 
+setup</a> this year, testing several new pieces of software, including 
+<a href="http://alioth.debian.org/projects/dvswitch/">dvswitch</a> for 
+software mixing, <a href="http://pentabarf.org/">Pentbarf</a> 
+integration for pulling metadata from the rest conference site, and 
+CMMLbot for integration of the live irc commentary.</p>
+
+<p>And of course, there are a great number of <a 
+href="https://penta.debconf.org/~joerg/day_9.en.html">interesting 
+talks</a>
+about the Debian free software distribution, and open source in general. Check 
+it out.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 June 11 - Jukola 2007 in Theora ]</h3>
+
+<p>A large <a 
+href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienteering">orienteering</a> 
+competiton, <a href="http://www.jukola2007.net/">Jukola 2007</a>,
+is planning to webcast their event next week in Theora!</p>
+
+<p>It should be a large event, with 10-15k viewers expected. Server-side 
+support is provided by <a href="http://www.kepit.fi/">Kepit Streaming 
+Systems</a>. Way to go guys.</p>
+
+<p>A link should be available on the <a 
+href="http://www.jukola2007.net/">front page</a> when the stream is live 
+(2007 June 16-17). More information about the webcast is 
+<a href="http://www.jukola2007.net/virkia/jukola.nsf/sp?Open&cid=content445C0C">available 
+in Finnish</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 June 7 - HTML5 video now! ]</h3>
+
+<p>The folks at <a href="http://metavid.org/">Metavid</a> are continuing
+to prove their worth. Michael Dale has updated his mv_embed script to 
+<em>dynamically rewrite</em> its host web page to use whatever support
+or Ogg video is available from the browser.</p>
+
+<p>That means you can just use, now, the 
+<a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/section-video.html#video">HTML5 &lt;video&gt; tag</a>
+to embed Theora in your webpage, and simply by including the javascript,
+have it work on browsers which do not yet support it.</p>
+
+<p>You can <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/06/07/html5-video-the-future-is-now/">read about the details</a> on the Metavid <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog">blog</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 June 5 - Theora Cookbook ]</h3>
+
+<p>There's a <a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/theoracookbook">Theora 
+Cookbook</a> with some helpful HOWTOs up at <a 
+href="http://flossmanuals.net/">FLOSS Manuals</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Thanks to Adam Hyde for making this nice resource available.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 March 20 - Linux Audio Conference ]</h3>
+
+<p>The Linux Audio Conference takes place this week 22-25 March, 2007.  
+As in past
+years LAC2007 will be streamed live in Vorbis and Theora via 
+Icecast. If you would like to watch or listen to the streams please check 
+out the conference wiki streaming page:
+<blockquote>
+<a href="http://www.medienwissenschaft.hu-berlin.de/lawici/index.php/Live_Streaming">
+http://www.medienwissenschaft.hu-berlin.de/lawici/index.php/Live_Streaming
+</a>
+</blockquote>
+</p>
+<p>Information on the conference itself, including talks, abstracts, 
+schedule and procedings: 
+<a href="http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/">
+http://www.kgw.tu-berlin.de/~lac2007/index.shtml
+</a>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 March 6 - Native Theora support in Opera? ]</h3>
+
+<p>One of the Opera developers <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/56445403@N00/406571288/">apparently</a> 
+<a 
+href="http://coolastory.blogspot.com/2007/03/sv-web-builders-event-world-premier-of.html">demonstrated</a> 
+<a href="http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/opera_visits_wi.html">native</a> Theora+Vorbis playback in their browser. Very cool! If we can get free 
+video formats implemented as the baseline for web video, we'll have 
+taken a major step away from the current morass of competing, 
+incompatible, proprietary media on the web.</p>
+
+<p>This <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-February/009702.html">follows 
+up</a> on a <a href="http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/009789.html">discussion</a> 
+on the What WG mailing list.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 February 28 - LCA 2007 video online ]</h3>
+
+<p>Just a heads up that video from all the talks at <a 
+href="http://lca2007.linux.org.au/">LCA 2007</a> has now been posted,
+in Theora format, of course.</p>
+
+<p>A lot of interesting talks here. They're all linked from the 
+<a href="http://lca2007.linux.org.au/Programme">programme page</a>.
+
+<h3>[ 2007 February 3 - Metavid theora wrapper ]</h3>
+
+<p>Michael Dale of the <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/">metavid</a> 
+project sent us a pointer to a <a 
+href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki_dev/mv_embed.01.tar.gz">standalone</a>, 
+packaged version of their <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/wiki/index.php/Mv_embed">cortado 
+embedding</a> scripts.</p>
+
+<p>See the metavid blog <a href="http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/02/03/ogg-theora-in-your-webpage/">for 
+more information</a>. Thanks, Michael!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 January 29 - ITheora php wrapper for cortado ]</h3>
+
+<p>Project contributor ZikZak has posted 
+<a href="http://menguy.aymeric.free.fr/theora/">ITheora</a>, 
+a GPL php wrapper to skin the 
+<a href="http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/">cortado</a> 
+java player. In addition to 
+making it pretty, it adds a few nice buttons like play/stop, download, 
+and so on. Instructions are in French, but the code package contains 
+everything you need to set it up.</p>
+
+<p>This makes embedding theora in webpages much nicer.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2007 January 28 - Creative Commons talk ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://romal.de/">Robert Albrecht</a> 
+<a href="http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2007-January/001388.html">wrote</a> 
+to say he has posted 
+<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Robert_M.Albrecht_Einfuehrung_in_CreativeCommons/romalcc.OGG">video</a> 
+and 
+<a href="http://www.pruefungsausschuss.de/www.romal.de/Creative%20Commons.pdf">slides</a> 
+of his introduction to the <a href="http://creativecommons.org">creative 
+commons</a> movement and licenses. (In German)</p>
+
+<p>Thanks Robert!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 December 28 - 23C3 streams in Theora ]</h3>
+
+<p>Helmut Pozimski reports that the 
+<a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Overview">23rd Chaos 
+Communication Conference</a> is now <a 
+href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Streams">streaming their 
+panels</a> in <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Streams#OGG">Theora</a> 
+and Vorbis audio only</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update:</strong> Unofficial <a href="http://blogage.de/mirror/ogg/">archives of the talks</a> are 
+online.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 December 20 - twibright vncrec outputs YUV4MPEG ]</h3>
+
+<p>Clock has hacked <a href="http://www.sodan.org/~penny/vncrec/">vncrec</a>
+To output the YUV4MPEG format, useful for feeding to the video encoders, 
+including <a href="http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/">ffmpeg2theora</a> 
+and the libtheora encoder_example.</p>
+
+<p>A release with the modification is <a href="http://ronja.twibright.com/utils/vncrec/">available here</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Thanks for this, clock!</a>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 December 1 - Theora on TI DM642 DSP ]</h3>
+
+<p>This is actually old news, but in February 
+<a 
+href="http://www.humboldt.co.uk/2006/02/embedded-theora-video.html">Adrian 
+Cox</a> got SD theora decode working in realtime on an TI <a 
+href="http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tms320dm642.html">DM642</a> 
+DSP.</p>
+<p> Way to go Adrian!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 November 10 - Theora video on Dell.com ]</h3>
+
+<p>The Linux section of Dell Computer's <a href="http://www.direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/category/1021.aspx">collective 
+blog</a> includes Theora alternatives to their apparently standard 
+wmv vlog entries. Well done, Dell, for realizing no one can watch 
+those!</p>
+
+<p>Recent examples include <a 
+href="http://linux.dell.com/vlogs/Logan_McLeod_vlog.ogg">Logan 
+McLeod advertising their clusters</a> and <a 
+href="http://linux.dell.com/vlogs/MSD_ORACLE.vlog_2.ogg">Michael Dell's 
+Keynote</a> at Oracle OpenWorld.</p>
+
+<p>Now, if they'd just make it the default link...</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 October 8 - Democracy shipping XiphQT ]</h3>
+
+<p>The MacOS version of the excellent <a href="http://www.getdemocracy.com/">Democracy</a>
+Internet TV platform now ships with and installs to <a href="http://xiph.org/quicktime/">XiphQT</a> components. This means that if you've installed Democracy, you can play Vorbis and Theora in other Quicktime-based applications!</p>
+<p>Way to support open media!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 October 3 - EATV switches to streaming theora ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.editingarchive.com/community/">Archive 
+Entertainment</a> has switched their 
+<a href="http://www.editingarchive.com/eatv">EATV streaming video</a>
+feed to <a href="http://icecast.org/">Icecast</a> and Theora! They 
+say the switch to open technology has been very successful for them.</p>
+
+<p>Great news. Check out their 
+<a href="http://www.editingarchive.com/eatv/">streams</a> or read more
+<a href="http://www.editingarchive.com/press/eatv.php">here</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 September 27 - International Free Software Forum video ]</h3>
+<p>People from <a href="http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/7.0/www/">International 
+Free Software Forum</a> (the largest brazilian 
+event about FLOSS) have done it two times in a row. They've
+<a href="http://torrents.softwarelivre.org/">put online</a> 
+the whole video coverage for this year's event (also online are the 
+videos from last year).</p>
+<p>It's almost 300 hours in Theora. It's a shame there's no subtitles, 
+for most of the lectures are not in English...the English ones are really 
+good, though.</p>
+<p>Also <a 
+href="http://digg.com/videos_educational/Almost_300_hours_of_videos_about_Free_and_Open_Source_Software">posted 
+to digg</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 June 20 - libtheora 1.0alpha7 release ]</h3>
+<p>There's a new release of the libtheora reference implementation.</p>
+<p>This release contains build fixes from the alpha6 release. There are
+no new features. The new MMX asm is enabled by default, and a problem 
+with that same code on SELinux machines has been fixed.</p>
+<p><blockquote>
+  <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha7.tar.bz2">libtheora-1.0alpha7.tar.bz2</a><br>
+  <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha7.tar.gz">libtheora-1.0alpha7.tar.gz</a><br>
+  <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha7.zip">libtheora-1.0alpha7.zip</a>
+</blockquote>
+</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 May 31 - Cinelerra supports distributed theora encoding ]</h3>
+<p><a href="http://cinelerra.org/">Cinelerra</a> is a well known 
+nonlinear video editor with support for renderfarms, enabiling use of 
+distributed cpu power to do faster rendering.</p>
+<p>A year after getting import and export support for theora, 
+Cinelerra now has distributed theora encoding support, which makes 
+theora content creation much faster.</p>
+<p><em>Thanks to Andraz Tori for this.</em></p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 May 30 - libtheora 1.0alpha6 release ]</h3>
+<p>We're pleased to announce a new release of the libtheora reference 
+implemenation. This is an incremental update over alpha 5, consisting
+primarily of bug fixes and a merge of the encoder optimizations from the 
+theora-mmx branch.</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+    <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha6.tar.bz2">libtheora-1.0alpha6.tar.bz2<a/><br>
+    <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha6.tar.gz">libtheora-1.0alpha6.tar.gz</a><br>
+    <a href="http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.0alpha6.zip">libtheora-1.0alpha6.zip</a>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p><strong>Changes since the 1.0 alpha 5 release:</strong>
+<ul>
+<li>Merge theora-mmx simd acceleration (x86_32 and x86_64)</li>
+<li>Major RTP payload specification update</li>
+<li>Minor format specification updates</li>
+<li>Fix some spurious calls to free() instead of _ogg_free()</li>
+<li>Fix invalid array indexing in PixelLineSearch()</li>
+<li>Improve robustness against invalid input</li>
+<li>General warning cleanup</li>
+<li>The offset_y member now means what every application thought it meant
+   (offset from the top). This will mean some old files (those with a
+   non-centered image created with a buggy encoder) will display 
+   differently.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Thanks to everyone who contributed!</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 March 25 - Live installfest streams ]</h3>
+<p>The 2006 FLISOL (Festival de Instalacion de Software Libre en 
+Latin America) is webcasting <a 
+href="http://giss.hackitectura.net/flisol/">live streams</a> from
+today's event. See <a 
+href="http://www1.autistici.org/communa/platanal/2006/03/10/flisol-tvstreams-installfest-latinoamerica/">here</a> 
+and <a 
+href="http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora/2006-March/001084.html">here</a> 
+for more information.</p>
+ 
+<h3>[ 2006 March 24 - Malagasy TV in Theora ]</h3>
+<p>Browsing the Icecast <a href="http://dir.xiph.org/">stream 
+directory</a> today I noticed <a 
+href="http://telegasy.info/">Telegasy</a> has an online Malagasy
+language <a 
+href="http://telegasy4.rktmb.org:8000/telegasy.ogg">stream</a> 
+in Theora. Very cool.</p>
+
+<h3>[ 2006 January 13 - YSTV webcast in Theora ]</h3>
+<p><a href="http://ystv.york.ac.uk/">York Student Television</a> is now 
+available online in Theora, both as a live stream and downloads of 
+past shows. <a href="http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/">Take a look</a> or
+<a href="http://ystv.york.ac.uk/streamlaunch/pressrelease.php">read</a> 
+about how they're using open source technology to distribute their 
+content in open formats.</p>
+
+<p>Way to go, YSTV, this is great to see!</p>
+
+<p>Note that the programs are also generally under a <a 
+href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0">CC</a> license 
+with a wierd additional advance notification requirement. We're not sure 
+how exactly that's intended to work...</p>
+
+<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 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 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 
+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 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 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 - Theora decoder ported to C# ]</h3>
+
+<p><a href="http://www.ogre3d.org/">Ogre</a> developer pjcast has a C# 
+port of the 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 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 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 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> 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 Theora.
+</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 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 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 Theora format ]</h3>
+<p>Kino, an actively developed non-linear video editing program for Linux, now supports the export of video in 
+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 L&uuml;tgert; 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 Theora, including a java version of the Theora client that 
+will allow viewing of 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 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 Theora format of Richard Stallman of 
+FSF + Christian Engstr&ouml;m 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 Foundation 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.
+
+<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.
+
+<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>
+<p><b>[ January 13th, 2003 - Test Suite ]</b></p>
+<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><br>
+<b>[ December 16th, 2002 - Robot Roll Call ]</b><br>
+<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 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">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 Foundation<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/donate/">this link</a>.
+<p>
+Thanks for stopping by, and happy hacking!
+
+</div>
+
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