Linked by Kroc Camen on Fri 25th Sep 2009 22:19 UTC, submitted by clododunord
Multimedia, AV "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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RE[2]: Comment by kaiwai
by Beta on Mon 28th Sep 2009 10:19 UTC in reply to "RE: Comment by kaiwai"
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(BTW, this raises another point: Why do Ogg Theora+Vorbis video files have a music note icon in Gnome?)


It may be related to file names, as .ogg is assumed to be audio aswell as .oga, while .ogv is video. It was found that people didn’t like the same extension/mimetype for both video and audio files, so they registered new mime types but had to retain some legacy for the current market of media players, so .ogg is kept for audio files.

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