Theora 1.0 Released, Supported By Firefox

YA_Python_dev writes "The Xiph.Org Foundation announced Monday the release of Theora 1.0. Theora is a free/open source video codec with a small CPU footprint that offers easy portability and requires no patent royalties. Upcoming versions of Firefox and Opera will play natively Ogg/Theora videos with the new HTML5 element <video src="file.ogv"></video>, and ffmpeg2theora offers an easy way to create content. Theora developers are already working on a 1.1 encoder that offers better quality/bitrate ratio, while producing streams backward-compatible with the current decoder." Adds reader logfish: "Since its bit-stream freeze in June of 2004 there have been numerous speed-ups and bug-fixes. Although Nokia claimed it to be proprietary almost a year ago, nothing has been proven. So now it's time to help it take over the internet, and finally push for video sites filled with Theora encoded vlogs, blurts and idle nonsense."

Comments

Long test cycle?

[howardd21]

A software project that was at code freeze in 2004 is just now being released? Was it in some legal issue, did they not have any any automated test tools...

Thank you very much, Mozilla Corp.

[Frenchman113]

For bloating my web browser with support for a shitty video format that nobody uses. Thank you for perpetuating a format that doesn't even match up to MPEG-2 in quality. Thank you for retarding the progress of Good Technology like MPEG-4 H.264/AVC and MPEG-4 AAC. With idiots evangelizing crap formats like Vorbis and Theora, it's no wonder that nobody takes w3c seriously.

Everything that Xiph has created is shit.

OGG - hacked up container with high overhead, incompatibility with non-Xiph formats, and no new features over AVI or MKV.

Vorbis - hacked up audio codec that doesn't do anything MP3 does and is glaringly inferior to AAC. No multi-channel support? No Spectral Bandwidth Replication? No wonder nobody uses it.

Theora - the newest in Xiph's line of crap. Except, this one doesn't even pretend to be useful. 1995 called. They want their MPEG-2 back.

Re:Who needs 64 bits?

[Fred_A]

You need a 64 bit system with more than 3 gigs of RAM to watch video in Windows ?
Wow.
I thought it more or less worked nowadays.

+1, Insightful

[sunny256]

I'd really like to give you an "Insightful" on this one, but I prefer to reward logged-in users with those few mod points I have. Please stop being an AC unless it's necessary.