Current events
What's happening in the world of Xiph? See Wikipedia:Current events for an example of what this should become like.
2007-07-27
Release of FLAC 1.2.0 (Jul 24) and libvorbis 1.2.0 (Jul 25).
- New in FLAC: minor speedup, internal changes, same compression as 1.1.4
- New in Vorbis: security bug fixed, better multiplex stream support
2007-07-21
Things are happening in Xiph.
- ffmpeg2theora 0.19 was released.
- libao 0.8.8 was released.
- the XSPF Validator has moved to //validator.xspf.org
- the MIME Types and File Extensions proposal is now an official Xiph recommendation; RFC to follow
2007-03-06
libSpiff is now part of Xiph, and the official library for XSPF.
2007-02-13
FLAC 1.1.4 released. changelog
2007-02-07
VLSI Solution Oy has announced VS1000, the first 16 bits DSP device for playing Ogg Vorbis on low-power and high-volume products.
2006-04-10
RAD Game Tools, which makes multimedia engines for several videogames, has now incorporated Ogg Vorbis support in their Miles Sound System. Their official announcement regarding Ogg Vorbis support can be found here.
2005-12-08
CBC is broadcasting both their Radio One and Two in Ogg Vorbis! Radio One is pretty stable and fast-loading.
2005-12-02
Speex 1.1.11.1 released.
2005-11-30
Icecast 2.3.1 released.
2005-10-15
FreeWaveOnline is a new Web-radio dedicated to Free Music. It use XSPF playlists[1]. This radio station is in french, but music is international ;)
2005-08-20
libtheora 1.0 alpha 5 released. [2]
2005-06-27
Vorbis 1.1.1 released. Some bug and documentation fixes, but no new encoder modes. [3]