05/24 Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation. Like all our
multimedia technology it can be used to distribute film and video online and on disc without
the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated with other formats.

Theora scales from postage stamp to HD resolution, and is considered particularly competitive
at low bitrates. It is in the same class as MPEG-4/DiVX, and like the Vorbis audio codec it
has lots of room for improvement as encoder technology develops.

Theora is in full public release as of November 3, 2008. The bitstream format for Theora I
was frozen Thursday, 2004 July 1. All bitstreams encoded since that date will remain compatible
with future releases.

The package contains the library that can decode and encode Theora streams. Theora is also
able to playback VP3 streams.
09/22