Daala

Also known as Daala video codec, Daala video compression

Daala is a video coding format that was under development by the Xiph.Org Foundation, under the lead of Timothy B. Terriberry and mainly sponsored by the Mozilla Corporation. Like Theora and Opus, Daala is available free of any royalties and its reference implementation is being developed as free and open-source software. The name is taken from the fictional character of Admiral Natasi Daala from the Star Wars universe.

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File format.extension: .ogv
File format.icon: Xiph Daala logo.png
File format.icon_size: 200px
File format.mime: video/ogg
File format.developer: Xiph.Org, Mozilla, IETF
File format.genre: Compressed Video
File format.open: Yes
File format.contained by: Ogg
File format.extendedto: AV1

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Daala is the codename for a new video compression technology. The effort is a collaboration between the Mozilla Foundation, the Xiph.Org Foundation and any other contributors that wish to help. The goal of the project is to provide a video format that's free to implement, use and distribute, and a reference implementation with technical performance superior to H.265. For more information, see the [Daala wiki][wiki]. The wiki has quickstart pages for [Linux/OS X][posix], [Windows][win], and [Windows MinGW64][mingw]. Daala uses the [GitHub Issue Tracker][issues] and the [Rietveld][code review] code review tool. [Jenkins][jenkins] is used for continuous integration. There's an IRC channel daala on chat.freenode.org. If you don't have IRC set up you can easily connect from your [web browser][webchat].

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The reference implementation is written in C and published, together with its source code, as free software under the terms of a BSD-like license. Software patents are being filed for techniques used in and developed for Daala. Those patents are freely licensed to everybody to use for any purpose. However, the patent holders reserve the right to use them to counter patent infringement lawsuits filed by others.