:Improved Ogg Theora Coming Soon to an Internet Near You
Improved Ogg Theora Coming Soon to an Internet Near You Jan 8, 2008, 10 :45 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6489 reads) (Other stories by Robin Miller)
"Free software for video is currently in sad shape. The only two widely distributed free video editing programs, Kino and Cinelerra, are nowhere near as capable as competing commercial software. Hardly any professional video producers use either one. But most people aren't as concerned with the software used to make video as with the software they need to play it, especially in their Web browsers, and on this side of the video equation it looks like things are going to get a lot better for free software enthusiasts in 2008.
"The two most prominent video codecs currently available under free software licenses are Xvid and Ogg Theora. In a technical sense, Xvid is clearly the better of the two..."
