Fluendo Funds Xiph.org for Vorbis and Theora RTP Specifications
GNU/Linux multimedia specialist Fluendo announces funding of Xiph.org to complete RTP specifications for the Vorbis and Theora codec formats
(PRWEB) December 6, 2004 --Fluendo is taking another step towards being able
to offer the world high-quality streaming using standard royalty-free formats.
By giving content producers and software makers the opportunity to use the
popular Vorbis and Theora formats together with the IETF-standardized Real Time
Protocol, reach and use of these formats will be increased even
further.
"It's fantastic to see Fluendo continuing to fill in pieces of
media technology still missing in the Open Source world. By implementing Xiph's
Ogg codecs over RTP, Fluendo is not only enhancing their own business, they're
giving, truly giving, powerful media technologies to all the peoples of the
world." says Christopher Montgomery, Executive Director of the Xiph.org
Foundation.
"RTP support has been missing from our technology suite for a
long time, and we're very happy to have Fluendo's support in remedy," said Ralph
Giles, lead Theora developer for the Xiph.org Foundation. "RTP is becoming
increasingly important for desktop conferencing and we are especially excited by
the prospect of consumer multicast distribution."
"We are very happy to
collaborate with the Xiph.org Foundation on enabling the high-quality Vorbis and
Theora codecs for use with the standardized RTP protocol", Fluendo Business
Manager Christian Schaller says. "Looking forward, we feel that combining our
own streaming server Flumotion with RTP-enabled Vorbis and Theora will be an
unbeatable combination for a very wide range of streaming audio and video
content providers."
Phil Kerr of Xiph.org will be in charge of the
development of the specifications, including the creation of reference
implementations and working with the Internet Engineering Task Force and other
stakeholders.
The development will be conducted in an open fashion in the
long-standing tradition of the Open Source community.
"With the support
of Fluendo, the Xiph.Org Foundation is able to provide a complete set of
streaming technologies to the wider Internet community",
says Phil Kerr. "The RTP profiles for Vorbis audio and Theora video allow for
real-time streaming of high-quality, multi-channel, audio and
video."
Vorbis and Theora
The Vorbis and Theora are open and
royalty-free multimedia formats for audio and video. Both of them are growing in
popularity quickly. More and more portable music players from leading producers
such as iRiver and iAudio have had support added for the Ogg/Vorbis format. It
is being used in popular games such as Unreal Tournament, Doom 3 and Harry
Potter 2. It is also experiencing growing popularity for web radio with adopters
such as UK Virgin Radio and Canadian CBC.
Since the recent release of
Theora's finalized format specification, it too is being implemented by more and
more products, among which Fluendo's own Flumotion Streaming
Server.
Fluendo S.L.
Fluendo is a company specialized in delivering
products and consulting services focusing on UNIX and GNU/Linux multimedia.
Fluendo employs several of the central developers of the GStreamer multimedia
framework, which is quickly establishing itself as the de-facto standard
multimedia framework for GNU/Linux and UNIX systems. Fluendo's flagship product
is the streaming media server, Flumotion, blessed with a unique and powerful
distributed design. Fluendo comes out ahead by combining best-of-breed systems
from the Open Source world with a strong team of highly knowledgeable software
engineers and a management team with a lot of streaming media
expertise.
Xiph.org Foundation
The Xiph.org Foundation is a
not-for-profit corporation dedicated to the production of technically
competitive, freely-implementable multimedia technology without the intellectual
property encumbrances that tax distribution in other formats. Xiph believes in
leveling the playing field for digital content so that all producers and artists
can distribute their work for minimal cost, regardless of industrial
affiliation.
For more information on Fluendo, visit the website at mail
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For more information on the Xiph.org
Foundation: http://www.xiph.org/
References
1. http://www.fluendo.com/
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3. http://www.xiph.org/
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