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The Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing public domain multimedia formats and tools. Their primary focus is on the Ogg family of formats, the most successful of which has been Ogg Vorbis, an open and patent-free audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented MP3 and AAC. Current development work is focusing on Ogg Theora, an open and patent-free video format and codec designed to compete with the patented MPEG-4, RealVideo, and Windows Media Video.In addition to its in-house development work, the Foundation has also brought several already-existing but complementary free software projects under its aegis, most of which have a separate, active group of developers. Among these are Speex, an audio codec designed for speech, and FLAC, a lossless audio codec.
1 Xiph.Org Projects
- Ogg
- Vorbis
- Theora
- TarkinTarkin is a video codec formerly under development by Xiph. org Foundation and it is part of the Ogg umbrella group of multimedia products. Tarkin has been put on hold, with Theora becoming the main focus for video encoding inside Ogg. Tarkin is to be bas
- Speex
- WritOgg Writ is a text-phrase codec used with the Ogg encapsulation format. It was initially designed to provide subtitles for Ogg Theora videos, but is also useful for song lyrics with Ogg Vorbis, transcripts with Ogg Speex, or any other place where it's use
- FLAC (can be inside an Ogg container, though it usually is not)
- cdparanoia
- IcecastIcecast is an open source streaming media project maintained by the creators of the Ogg media format, Xiph. org Foundation. It also refers specifically to the server program which is part of the project. Technical details The Icecast server is capable of
- IceShareIceShare is a P2P system for Ogg multimedia. How It Works Clients use the to connect to a Tracker and make a request for a file. This file must already be known by the client and is typically supplied to the client by a URL, such as icet://127. 1/somethin
- Moaning Goat Meter
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