Working with Ogg Theora

Posted on | August 20, 2009 | No Comments

The open standard, non-proprietary media format Ogg Therora (.ogg) is really catching on. Read this new article from the Free Software Foundation website.

Excerpt:
“Ogg Theora is becoming a big deal, and that’s exactly what he hoped for when we launched the PlayOgg campaign in May 2007. The free, patent-unencumbered video codec now works in over 24% of the world’s web browsers with no plugins required. The latest 1.1 release of the Theora encoder (obligatory weird codename: Thesnulda) is coming out any day now. And when it does, the huge improvements in quality and functionality made over the past year with support from Wikimedia and others will percolate out into the major GNU/linux distributions, arriving at the fingertips of those who build and maintain the world’s biggest video sites. Most of all, people are excited, releasing new tools that make the Theora easier to use, as well as jaw-dropping demos of what free formats and web standards can do.”

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