Ogg Theora Alpha 2 Released

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday June 10, 2003 @01:55AM from the its-like-ogg-but-for-video-dude dept.

An anonymouse reader writes "After almost seven months, another alpha release of Ogg Theora is finally out. Still not production ready, but it's certainly showing some progress." The world needs a free video codec. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

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Whats the chance..... by Cackmobile · 2003-06-10 02:05 · Score: 4, Funny

of major companies picking this up. Are they really going to use this for movie trailers/previews. I don't think so. They'll stick with QT and WMP. Big business loves Big business. I guess we'll be stuck with
I hate QT, why don't they bring it out with something OSS

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1. Re:Whats the chance..... by salimma · 2003-06-10 02:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I hate QT, why don't they bring it out with something OSS
  
  Mplayer can play Quicktime just fine on Linux/x86 - and with the newer QT being based on MPEG4, presumably it will be possible to use ffmpeg/xvid/insert favourite mpeg4 codec combined with libquicktime to read QT files on all platforms.
  
  What this is useful, IMHO, is archiving. For all those DVDs that you have - it's quite nifty being able to burn 4 movies into a DVD-R. As for it catching on with businesses, well, not until long before Ogg Vorbis does. It might be nice to have in-house though - non-media companies can thus save money from being spent on Real/QT/WMP licenses.
  
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Re:Open source porn by Herg · 2003-06-10 02:06 · Score: 5, Funny

Just a friendly reminder, you don't get the bonus karma unless you spell it 'pr0n'.
Great line from the FAQ by SuperCal · 2003-06-10 02:11 · Score: 4, Funny

I love it when a FAQ document doesn't take itself to seriously....

Q: Can I convert Ogg Theora files into VP3?

A: Why would you want to do something stupid like that?
Are you nuts?

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Re:XviD? by fobbman · 2003-06-10 02:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe Taco will make reference to that project in the repost.
Re:Theora? by lambadomy · 2003-06-10 02:15 · Score: 4, Funny

Congratulations on getting karma for answering your own question. Hopefully you won't get a karma boost for the question as well, I can just see it now, everyone asking and then answering themselves to get double the karma!
Re:Another Codec to Install by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-10 02:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Yes, we should all have stuck with Cinepak!
Re:XviD? by ironhide · 2003-06-10 02:27 · Score: 2, Funny

1) XviD is a open source implementation mpeg-4, which is *not* a free to use standard see the MPEGLA.
2) Ogg Theora is more efficient at very low bitrates then XviD is. Real9 beats Ogg Theora on the ultra low bandwidth though (200 Kb/s)
Re:One problem solved by Fiveeight · 2003-06-10 02:39 · Score: 3, Funny

Do you have to make the the actors available to everyone you give the binary to?
Re:Theora? by meringuoid · 2003-06-10 02:47 · Score: 4, Funny

I was too quick. A proper karma whore would have posted the question, waited to score a couple of 'Interesting' mods, then posted the answer to collect on the 'Informative'.
Patience, that's the key :-)

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Re:World needs it, but will they use it? by MyHair · 2003-06-10 02:51 · Score: 2, Funny

I use it and love it but I am still in the vast minority.

Well, at least it's a vast minority. :-)