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Theora I Bistream Format Frozen

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-a-dynamic-freeze dept.

p80 writes "The Xiph foundation announced today that the 'Theora I bistream format is now frozen,' even though Beta 1 is not out yet and encourage people to try it as 'there's no reason to delay adopting a free alternative any more!' Mplayer and Xine both support Theora. For Windows users, Directshow filters for Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC are available here. You can get test cases here and transcode Quicktime movies to theora on that page." This freeze, as an anonymous reader puts it, "means that all future versions will support the format as it is now. It will be interesting to see if there is as much uptake for this as there was for the Vorbis sound format."

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  1. Oh, this will be modded as flamebait... by markv242 · · Score: 5, Funny
    "It will be interesting to see if there is as much uptake for this as there was for the Ogg sound format"
    You mean, almost no uptake at all outside of the Linux community?
  2. My God! by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always thought Theora was kind of cool... But frozen? My God! They must really kick arse!

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  3. Re:Fighting a losing battle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >ubiqoutous (sp??)

    you're connected to one of the largest repositories of human knowledge ever created and you're unable to correctly spell a word?

  4. Great... by OS24Ever · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...so now we'll have 'xxx releases new xxx player' with a hundred responses of 'Does it do ogg' followed by another few hundred responses of 'Ogg is not the format, theora is the encoder'

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  5. A reason to delay ... ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... there's no reason to delay adopting a free alternative any more!

    Hmm. Thinking.... Thinking.... There must be SOME reason... This is tough. Oh, wait! I know! I've got one!!!

    Beta 1 is not out yet ...

    Yeah! There we go. See, I knew I could come up with something.

  6. Finally... by Fooby · · Score: 3, Funny

    A format that can be used by the free-as-in-speech porn community.

  7. Re:Fighting a losing battle by BRSloth · · Score: 5, Funny

    you're connected to one of the largest repositories of human knowledge ever created

    This is Slashdot. You must be new here.

    Oh, you mean the internet! Yeah, there is knowledge there...

  8. Re:Fighting a losing battle by The_reformant · · Score: 4, Funny

    No you fool!!! they can succeed just on free operating systems. And only people clever enough to compile from the source are allowed to use it anyway. Oh yeah and windows media player sucks so anyone which uses that isnt allowed to have it either.

    In fact me and my friend keith are just going to keep it for ourselves. Keith had a girlfriend once

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  9. Re:I think they mean BITSTREAM by Ignignot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Man, you put wayyy too much work into decyphering a typo. ;-) Slow day at work?

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  10. be pro-active by flacco · · Score: 3, Funny

    you want to spread Theora? encode a bunch of pr0n in it and spread it out on the net.

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