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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. if only satan were here to see this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i didnt read the article and i have nothing intelligent or interesting to say, even if i had read and understood the article you wouldnt want to hear my talk about it, thank you for your time

  2. Spam-bait, please ignore / mod down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Fighting a losing battle by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 15, @04:10PM (#943628)

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  4. Re:Fighting a losing battle by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I have a registered nickname; my ID is half of yours."

    Suuuuuuuuure.

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