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The goal of the Xiph.org Foundation was never make Vorbis or Theora take over the world. The goal was to provide royalty-free multimedia codecs. If VP8 is open
by metajack 17y ago
The goal of the Xiph.org Foundation was never make Vorbis or Theora take over the world. The goal was to provide royalty-free multimedia codecs. If VP8 is open sourced and they make the required patent grants, the world gets a royalty-free video codec. We win.
We worked on Vorbis and Theora because no one else was going to do it. Here we are a decade later on the cusp of much of our dream finally coming true.
disclaimer: I co-founded, managed, and still sit on the Board of Directors of the Xiph.org Foundation.
- mortenjorck 17y agoI think it's fair to say your efforts paved the way to a world where a major corporation could actually consider this. You may not have struck the final blow for video codec freedom, but the victory is very much yours as well. A sincere bravo to you and the Xiph.org Foundation.
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- ZeroGravitas 17y agoXiph's Vorbis is the only audio codec that's suitable for use alongside a hypothetical Google royalty-free video codec. Well it's not the only one. Xiph's CELT and Xiph's FLAC are probably interesting too for certain use cases, and maybe the upcoming IETF Wideband codec that Xiph are helping standardize. And they appear to be working on their next-generation audio codec, Ghost, again too, so that's one for the future. So yes, well done Xiph.