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

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.
MailOgging

Project management

Wiki internal

Sandbox: Testbed for testing editing skills
Translations: What about some translation work
XiphWiki:Copyrights

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