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In an effort to bring open-source ideals to the world of multimedia the Xiph.Org Foundation develops a multitude of amazing products. This wiki describes our free and open protocols and software.

Demonstrations of Xiph technologies

Want to hear or see Xiph in action? These projects are using our codecs, formats, or libraries.

• VorbisStreams: Stations streaming with the Vorbis codec
• Games that use Vorbis: Games using the Vorbis codec for music or sound effects
• VorbisHardware: Hardware players using the Vorbis codec
• VorbisSoftwarePlayers: list of media players with out-of-box support for Ogg Vorbis
• List of Theora videos: Available videos encoded with Theora

Projects/Formats

Container Formats

• Ogg: Media container. This is our native format and the recommended container for Xiph codecs.
• Ogg Skeleton: Skeleton information on all logical content bitstreams in Ogg.
• SpeexRTP: RTP payload format for voice
• VorbisRTP: RTP payload format for general audio
• TheoraRTP: RTP payload format for video
• XSPF: XML playlist format

Codecs

• Compressed Audio/Video Codecs:
  • Vorbis: Audio codec with a fixed point decoder
  • Theora: Video codec
  • FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
  • Speex: Speech codec
• Timed Text/Metadata Codecs:
  • CMML: Continuous Media Markup Language, used for Annodex and subtitles (xine, vlc, gstreamer, and DirectShow support)

Software

• Software for distributing media
  • Icecast: Streaming server
  • Ices: Source client for Icecast servers

• Other software
  • OggComponent/VorbisComponent: Wrappers to integrate Ogg-Vorbis into Mac OS X (does not yet support encoding)

Promotional campaigns/events

• MailOgging: project that provides templates for anyone willing to contact a company requesting them to add support for Xiph formats.

Work in Progress

• Work In Progress: codecs and software still in the research and development stages.
• Todo: To-do list for various Xiph.Org project.

Project management

• AdminProcesses
• MonthlyMeeting: page with information on Xiph's MonthlyMeeting
• MailingLists: list of Xiph's mailing lists
• Bounties: list of bounties that you can take to improve Xiph's projects
• HyperFish

Resources for Video and Audio programmers

• Ambisonics: page with technical information on Ambisonics
• Courses and papers on Audio, Music and Speech: page with links to MIT and other University's content

Wiki internal

• Sandbox: Testbed for testing editing skills
• Translations: What about some translation work
• XiphWiki:Copyrights: License used for content on this wiki (i.e. CC-BY-SA)