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...has been rolled into Theora, as is said at both sites.

from vp3.com:
NOTE TO ALL VP3 DEVELOPERS:
Monday, September 9, 2002 -- Starting today, all source code development and maintenance for the VP3 open source codec has moved to a new home: www.theora.org. Piloted by the open-source wunderkids at xiph.org who brought you Vorbis audio, Theora heralds a new era of open and license-free multimedia.

from theora.org:
What is Theora? Theora will be a video codec that builds upon On2's VP3 codec.

So, in case anyone was wondering (like I just was), there you go.

If he's into multimedia and codecs and such. I'd love to see usable code come out of the Ogg/Theora project soon - especially an encoder...

He's obviously got talent and experience with related coding from BladeENC, and Theora has a similar goal ("free" multimedia for wide use)...

Not that I'm anxious to see Theora take off or anything :-)

And/Or charge a reasonable price for it. I'm thinking some of the DVD distributors are starting to clue into this - I've been seeing a few (obviously less famous [They put "Caveman" out on DVD????]) DVD's showingup for $7.99-$9.99 at the local superhypermegamart. That's NEW, not "previously viewed". Heck, that price range seemed just fine for "previously viewed" VHS's a few years ago...

When the price of a typical DVD (new) has dropped down to ~$10 or so (currently seems to be $15-20US for most of them right now) the only people who'll be left pirating will be unemployed small children abusing their parents' broadband connection.

Combined with your point, I'd say that what little real "piracy" there is of DVD's right now (far less than the MPAA claims, I suspect) will dwindle to near nothing in the next couple of years.

Unless, of course, cheap set-top "DivX;)" (or Ogg-Theora?) boxes with TV-out start showing up on the market...and maybe even then.

I'm one of those obsessed nerds that keeps a local copy of CVS for projects that I am interested in (just to use, typically, not as a developer), and updates them from time to time just to see what's changing (and whether or not I want to recompile to see it).

In the last couple of days, a bunch of spec documents have been added to CVS for vorbis and ogg...

Hopefully now they'll get going on the Ogg Theora project. I wonder, though - how much of it will appear in the VP32 module and how much in the Ogg module? I imagine they were putting off dealing with "video in Ogg" until the 1.0 release...

Unlikely. I'm not related to them expect by hanging around in #vorbis and having continuously listened to Oggs for the last six months, but it seems to me that they'll focus on Ogg Theora once Vorbis 1.0 is released.

Actually, quicktime seems to work quite well on linux via, for example, mplayer, with the sole exception that I've run into of SVQ3 (Sorenson, of course). SVQ1 is even working now, with optimized code (also appearing in FFMPEG) based on the reverse engineering done by the folks working on Xine. Oddly enough, the specifications page for QT6 mentiones SVQ2 and SVQ3, but implies that it DOESN'T support SVQ1...

If the release of QT6 means that MPEG4 will become the "default" codec for QuickTime movies as time goes on (as some posts, As well as several of the QuickTime pages at Apple, are hinting), the "quicktime barrier" to video on linux will all but disappear, since as far as I can tell just about every variant of MPEG4 works on Linux in some form or another. I suppose this depends on how the dispute between Apple and Sorenson goes...(anybody heard anything about that lately?) and how long it takes someone to work out how to interpret the type of what I assume are "pointer files" or something of the sort on the previously mentioned apple Quicktime Mpeg4 page (mplayer seems to have trouble decoding them...)

Of course, somewhere in here I should insert the obligatory comment about Ogg Theora and how I wish they'd hurry up and get the mailing lists working and get a working prototype that I can test, but as I can't think of what to say, I won't....