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Ogg Theora Alpha 2 Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Whats the chance..... by Cackmobile · · 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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  2. Re:Open source porn by Herg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just a friendly reminder, you don't get the bonus karma unless you spell it 'pr0n'.

  3. Great line from the FAQ by SuperCal · · 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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  4. Re:XviD? by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe Taco will make reference to that project in the repost.

  5. Re:Theora? by lambadomy · · 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!

  6. Re:Theora? by meringuoid · · 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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