The Xiph.org Foundation announced today the official release of Theora 1.0. Theora is an open video codec that can be broadly used and redistributed without having to pay patent royalties. The latest ...

RealNetworks, the most recent corporate convert to open-source religion, has pledged to embrace streaming media's open-source stalwart in a move that could threaten the popular MP3 format.

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Video-compression provider On2 Technologies plans to announce Monday that it will blend its video codec with Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free alternative to the MP3 format. Under an agreement between On2 ...