ogg theora

"Theora is a free and open lossy video compression format. It is developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and distributed without licensing fees alongside their other free and open media projects, including the Vorbis audio codec and the Ogg container."

August 2001: On2 Technologies announced that they will be releasing an open source version of their VP3.2 video compression algorithm. In September 2001 they published the source code and open source license for VP3.2 video compression algorithm. In August 2002, On2 entered into an agreement with the Xiph.Org Foundation to make VP3 the basis of a new, free video codec, called Theora.

2004, October 31: release of PiDiP 0.12.17, a library of Pure Data objects by Yves Degoyon. New object: pdp_theorout~ (ogg theora file recorder). "next step will be to add some theora streaming object, but i'm really not sure to go the flumotion way (although it works here ), but as regards to the way some enterprises want to take hold of it. i'd rather stream through icecast2 (and this works too)".
December 23: PiDiP 0.12.18 (codename Benisensi) ”” "tries to escape from patents issue by offering a full support for ogg/theora video format (reading, writing & streaming in & out)". New objects: pdp_icedthe~ : a threaded theora stream reader (from flumotion or icecast); pdp_theonice~ : a theora a/v streamer (to flumotion or icecast).

November 2008: first stable release of libtheora as version 1.0.

November 25, 2008: The Internet Archive announces it's new strategy of encoding all video in Ogg Theora format.

January 26, 2009: Mozilla announces that it has awarded a $100,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation (owner of Wikipedia) to support the continuing development and improvement of Ogg Theora and related open video technologies.

June 30, 2009: Firefox 3.5 offers native support for Ogg Theora.

Streaming media servers are capable of streaming Theora video:
- VLC
- Icecast (maintained by the Xiph.org Foundation)
- FreeCast
- Flumotion

- Theora Streaming Studio is a complete client to connect to an Icecast server.

Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora

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