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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.
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Demonstrations of Xiph technologies
Want to hear or see Xiph in action? These projects are using our codecs, formats, or libraries.
- Vorbis Streams: Stations streaming with the Vorbis codec
- Games that use Vorbis: Games using the Vorbis codec for music or sound effects
- Vorbis Hardware: Hardware players using the Vorbis codec
- Vorbis Software Players: list of media players with out-of-box support for Vorbis
- Theora Hardware: Hardware using the Theora video codec
- Theora Software Players: list of media players with Theora support
- List of Theora videos: Sources for video 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.
- Specification of MIME types and respective codecs parameter
- SpeexRTP: RTP payload format for voice
- VorbisRTP: RTP payload format for general audio
- TheoraRTP: RTP payload format for video
- XSPF: XML Sharable 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
- Uncompressed Audio/Video Codecs:
- OggPCM: Audio codec
- Timed Text/Metadata Codecs:
- CMML: Continuous Media Markup Language, used for Annodex and subtitles (xine, vlc, gstreamer, and DirectShow support)
- Kate: new format for lyrics and subtitles
Software
- Software for distributing media
- Icecast: Streaming server
- Ices: Source client for Icecast servers
- Libraries
- OggPlay: library for synchronised Xiph media playback
- XiphQT: Quicktime component to play the main Xiph formats
- VorbisCommentEdit: Macintosh Framework making it easy to incorporate the editing of Vorbis Comments
- Other software
- OggComponent/VorbisComponent: Wrappers to integrate Vorbis into Mac OS X (does not yet support encoding)
- cdparanoia: CDDA extractor/ripper
Community
- How to help
- Spread Open Media: project to promote Xiph formats.
- MailOgging: provides templates for anyone willing to contact a company requesting them to add support for Xiph formats.
- People: Who's who in Xiph.
Work in Progress
- Work In Progress: codecs and software still in the research and development stages.
- Todo: To-do list for various Xiph projects.
Project management
- AdminProcesses: who's in charge of what project
- 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
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 universities' content
- Oggless: for ideas on how to use the different Xiph codecs outside Ogg
Wiki internal
- Translations: What about some translation work
- Sandbox: Testbed for testing editing skills
- XiphWiki:Copyrights: License used for all content on the XiphWiki
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