LP 2010

Who the are we?

"We're Xiph.Org" Oh, you mean us, (Monty and Greg Maxwell)

What has happened in the past year?

• In-browser playback, long promised, became a reality.

• Firefox 3.5 shipped; HTML 5 with Ogg is a reality.

• Cortado improvements

Cortado is not a stopgap, it's possibly the most capable solution right now. (Yes, it's java, we know)

• Ogg Kate: Demo!

• Browsers and browser plugins also started actually supporting seeking properly.

• Promised encoder improvements shipped

Thusnelda shipped as Theora 1.1 with a completely refreshed sourcebase on encode and decode. Theora no longer has any code in common with original VP3 sourcebase. That wasn't exactly a goal, just a statement of where we've gotten to.

What is happening now

Current Ogg coverage

• Ogg continues to be more of a reality than h264 (at least for web video, at least for now).

• Native support: Firefox market share: 31%, Chrome: 5.28% Opera: 3.3%

• Plugin Support: Safari (XiphQT) 5.2%, IE 6 and later (Silverlight*): ~the rest

• Java support: Everyone— all the way back to Netscape 4!

(Share figures From Wikimedia[1])

• More encoder improvements:

Ptalarbvorm development underway [2]

• Vorbis surround optimization (development toward Ghost)

• Ogg documentation, Ogg tutorials (combating misinformation)

• Continued filter/plugin improvements

• XiphQT and the DirectShow filters continue to be central to adoption/penetration.

What will happen in the next year

• Ship Ptalarbvorm as Theora 1.2

• Early Ghost demo? Some publicly visible demonstration of progress. (shipping, assuming research success, is years off)

• Better *documentation*. Developers, developers, developers. And artists. And everyone else too.

Breakout, questions:

• "How can I help?" http://wiki.xiph.org/How_to_help

• "Implementation questions"

• "Usage questions"

• "Google! Everyone Panic!"