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Projects/Formats

In an effort to bring open-source ideals to the world of multimedia The Xiph.org Foundation (XiphOrg) develops a multitude of amazing products.

Container Formats

Ogg: Media container. This is our native format and the recommeded container for Xiph codecs.

SpeexRTP: RTP payload format for voice
VorbisRTP: RTP payload format effort
TheoraRTP: RTP payload format effort

Codecs

Vorbis: Audio codec
Tremor: Fixed-point decoder
Theora: Video codec
FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Speex: Speech codec
Writ: Text phrase codec (e.g. subtitles)
Metadata: Arbitrary metadata stream format (vapourware so far)

Software for distributing media

Icecast: Streaming server
Ices: Source client for Icecast servers
IceShare: P2P content distribution

Demonstrations

VorbisStreams: Stations streaming with the Vorbis codec

Project management

Wiki internal

Sandbox: Testbed for testing editing skills.