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Xiph Releases Ogg Theora Alpha-3

Posted by Hemos on from the frozen-for-usage dept.

ArcRiley writes "For more than a year Xiph hackers have been working on Ogg Theora, an improved version of On2's VP3 video codec. Alpha-3 includes several bitstream changes, VP3 to Theora "upgrade" utilities, and is now supported by Xine, MPlayer, and Real's Helix Player. We're nearing Beta-1 where the format will be frozen, fully documented, and it'll be ready for everyday use."

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  1. Getting Old... by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 4, Funny
    Developers: Xiph Releases Ogg Theora Alpha-3

    OK, Developers got my attention, because I am one.

    I understood the word "Releases".

    And that's about it, from that title.

    All I can think of is Gary Larson's comic strip where it has the "what you say" vs. "what they hear" when you speak to a dog...

    Blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah GINGER...

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    1. Re:Getting Old... by basic70 · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're a developer, and you understood the word "releases"? Liar, liar.

  2. Re:Ug. Me get new moving picture thing. by MalaclypseTheYounger · · Score: 2, Funny

    On Monday morning, before 3 mountain dews? Very dumbed down.

    "Company releases beta stuff" would suffice. :)

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  3. Re:Ug. Me get new moving picture thing. by AllUsernamesAreGone · · Score: 2, Funny

    "People wo write files containing instuctions telling a computer what to do: the Xiph.Org Foundation releases (that is, allows the world to see) the 3rd alpha ("this will crash") of their strange named video ("moving pictures") encoding and decoding format Ogg Theora"

    That dumbed down enough do you think? I'm worried about "encoding and decoding"....

  4. Curios definition of "beta"... by Kjella · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're nearing Beta-1 where the format will be frozen, fully documented, and it'll be ready for everyday use.

    Not only beta... but beta-1. And I assume that means there'll be a beta-2 and maybe a few more, before we get to RC1, and perhaps a few of those too. So, what decade is Release 1.0 planned for? And what exactly will happen with the "frozen, fully documented" codec between beta-1 and release?

    Kjella

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  5. At least my nick was taken by an oss group by Xiph · · Score: 1, Funny

    instead of earlier when it was Xiphias, and they went and made a bloody movie using it.
    back then it was impossible to avoid fakenickers.

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  6. a plurality of said current pixels by sakyamuni · · Score: 2, Funny

    My brain refused to continue parsing the patent text approximately here:

    identifying reference pixels corresponding to a first of said current pixels, said reference pixels being a first pixel adjacent to said first current pixel and a second pixel preceding said first current pixel by a number of pixels equal to a horizontal size of said dither matrix;