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Theora
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Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It was developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.

Key facts

File format.logo
Theora logo 2007.svg
File format.extension
.ogv, .ogg
File format.mime
video/ogg
File format.owner
Xiph.Org Foundation
File format.latest release version
Theora I
File format.latest release date
3 June 2017
File format.type
Video coding format
File format.contained by
Ogg, Matroska
File format.extended from
VP3
File format.open
Yes
File format.free
Yes
File format.standard
Specification
File format.url
theora.org
Software.name
libtheora
Software.developer
Xiph.Org Foundation
Software.released
(1.0)
Software.latest_release_version
1.2.0
Software.latest_preview_version
1.2.0 Beta 1

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

19 sections
Contents
  • Technical details
  • History
  • Move to free software
  • Theora I specification
  • Legacy
  • Performance
  • Encoding performance
  • Playback performance
  • Playback
  • Web browsers
  • Supporting media frameworks
  • Supporting applications
  • Encoding
  • Editing
  • Streaming
  • Makers
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

Theora is a free lossy video compression format. It was developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container.

The libtheora video codec is the reference implementation of the Theora video compression format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Theora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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