Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 25th Sep 2009 22:19 UTC, submitted by clododunord
"We are pleased to announce a new stable release of libtheora,
the Xiph.org Foundation's reference implementation of the royalty-free Theora video
format. This new release, version 1.1, codenamed Thusnelda, incorporates all of the recent encoder improvements we have been making over
the past year, though some of the code had its genesis all the way back in 2003.
It also brings substantial speed and robustness improvements to the 1.0 decoder." For a more visual run-down of the changes, check out Mozilla's excellent article.
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Actually, from what I understand, Vorbis development has stopped apart from the efforts of AoTuV and others like him.
Still, it has features MP3 doesn't (like 5.1 channel support, finer-grained VBR, better metadata) and sound quality is still excellent. I don't know how well it fares against AAC, but the last time I looked they (AAC, MP3 and Vorbis) were generally indistinguishable at 128 kbps.
Yes, I know the metadata is an Ogg thing, not a Vorbis thing.