Directory of Theora Resources

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Theora is a free, lossy video compression format believed to be patent unencumbered. Originally based on TrueMotion VP3 from On2 Technologies which released it to the free software community, it is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is comparable to Xvid regarding compression efficiency. Most of the time is it found muxed with Vorbis audio in an Ogg container with the .ogv file extension.

It is used for the video tag of HTML5 in several browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera, SeaMonkey and can also be viewed in Safari if the Xiph QuickTime Components are installed.

Resources in This Category

• ffmpeg2theora

  http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/
  Open source, command line converter to create Ogg Theora files. News, download links, examples.

• Flossmanuals: Ogg Theora Cookbook

  http://en.flossmanuals.net/ogg-theora/
  A free manual explaining the codec and the tools to cut, split, resize, convert and otherwise manipulate video files in this format.

• Streamnik

  http://www.streamnik.de/
  Provides a number of free applications for internet web streaming in the free Ogg Theora format. News, download links, documentation including screencasts.

• Tagtheora

  http://open-source.ecchi.ca/?voir=projets/tagtheora
  A simple Python script which can change metadata tags of an Ogg Theora file.

• Theora

  http://theora.org/
  Open video codec that can compete with MPEG-4 format. News, source-code, and FAQ.

• TheoraPlay

  http://icculus.org/theoraplay/
  Free software library in C which aims to make decoding of this format easier.

• Thoggen

  http://www.thoggen.net/
  Open source DVD backup and ripping utility for GNU/Linux that encodes in Theora. Documentation, screenshots, download links.

• VideoBin

  http://www.videobin.org/
  Hosting site for videos in Ogg Theora format, features an API and embedding in third party sites.

• Videos for the Web with HTML 5 - an Introduction

  http://www.elstel.org/html5video/FlashVersusHtml5Video.html.en
  The HTML5 video tag, browser support, converting videos into an HTML5 supported format.

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