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<h2 id="technical-details">Technical details</h2> <p>Theora is a <a href="/facts/Variable_bitrate/RrRLn4dl">variable-bitrate</a>, <a href="/facts/Discrete_cosine_transform/gPpDhPwP">DCT</a>-based video compression scheme. Like most common video codecs, Theora used <a href="/facts/Chroma_subsampling/8UYHAKI2">chroma subsampling</a>, <a href="/facts/Block_(data_storage)/S3vT7c6N">block</a>-based motion compensation and an 8-by-8 DCT block. Pixels are grouped into various structures, namely blocks, super blocks, and <a href="/facts/Macroblocks/L7XPoRNP">macroblocks</a>. Theora supports intra-coded frames ("keyframes") and forward-predictive frames, but not <a href="/facts/B-frame/nv0LBArA">bi-predictive frames</a> which are found in <a href="/facts/H.264/soCzKcmJ">H.264</a> and <a href="/facts/VC-1/KotHFF8I">VC-1</a>. Theora also does not support <a href="/facts/Interlaced_video/YBk246TF">interlacing</a>, or bit-depths larger than 8 bits per component.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> </p><p>Theora video streams can be stored in any suitable <a href="/facts/Container_format_(digital)/mSfwwdSA">container format</a>, but they are most commonly found in the <a href="/facts/Ogg/KF4j68N7">Ogg</a> container with <a href="/facts/Vorbis/rqJDTF0T">Vorbis</a> or <a href="/facts/FLAC/TbqpHlWy">FLAC</a> audio streams. This combination provided a completely open, royalty-free multimedia format. It can also be used with the <a href="/facts/Matroska/hDrffBx0">Matroska</a> container.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>The Theora video-compression format is compatible with the VP3 video-compression format, which consisted of a backward-compatible superset.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> Theora is a superset of VP3, and VP3 streams (with some minor syntactic modifications) can be converted into Theora streams without recompression (but not vice versa).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> VP3 video compression can be decoded using Theora implementations, but Theora video compression usually cannot be decoded using old VP3 implementations. </p> <h2 id="history">History</h2> <p class="note">See also: <a href="/facts/VP3/0uCWamRp">VP3</a></p> <p>Theora's predecessor <i>On2 TrueMotion VP3</i> was originally a <a href="/facts/Proprietary_software/9zcskxYL">proprietary</a> and patent-encumbered <a href="/facts/Video_codec/psfSuqg7">video codec</a> developed by <a href="/facts/On2_Technologies/IDyBFK8S">On2 Technologies</a>. VP3.1 was introduced in May 2000<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> and followed three months later by the VP3.2 release,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a> which was the basis for Theora. </p> <h3>Move to free software</h3> <p>In August 2001, On2 Technologies announced that they would release an open source version of their VP3.2 video compression algorithm.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a> In September 2001, On2 Technologies published the <a href="/facts/Source_code/o9J6Jv23">source code</a> of the VP3.2 codec under the VP3.2 Public License 0.1,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a> a custom open-source license.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> The license only granted the right to modify the source code if the resultant larger work continued to support playback of VP3.2 data.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> </p><p>In March 2002, On2 responded to the public's reception by relicensing the VP3 codec under the <a href="/facts/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License/AXwkz9x3">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> In June 2002, On2 donated VP3 to the Xiph.Org Foundation and offered it under the Ogg Vorbis <a href="/facts/BSD_License/XLtmLp5x">BSD</a>-style license.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> On2 also made an irrevocable, <a href="/facts/Royalty-free/jygPgwe5">royalty-free</a> license grant for any patent claims it might have over the software and any derivatives,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> allowing anyone to use any VP3-derived codec for any purpose.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> 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.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> On2 declared Theora to be VP3's successor. On 3 October 2002, On2 and Xiph announced the completion and availability of the initial alpha code release of <i>libtheora</i>, Theora's reference implementation.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> </p><p>There is no formal specification for VP3's <a href="/facts/Bitstream_format/CPuf17up">bitstream format</a> beyond the VP3 source code published by On2 Technologies. In 2003, Mike Melanson created an incomplete description of the VP3 bitstream format and decoding process at a higher level than source code, with some help from On2 and Xiph.Org Foundation. The Theora specification adopted some portions of this VP3 description.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> </p><p>A successor to Theora, <a href="/facts/Daala/0oyPpRJP">Daala</a>, was later merged into <a href="/facts/AV1/d07UxHgf">AV1</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> </p> <h3>Theora I specification</h3> <p>The Theora I bitstream format was <a href="/facts/Freeze_(software_engineering)/STvPJJX2">frozen</a> in June 2004 after the libtheora 1.0alpha3 release.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> Videos encoded with any version of the libtheora since the alpha3 will be compatible with any future player.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> This is also true for videos encoded with any implementation of the Theora I specification since the format freeze. The <i>Theora I Specification</i> was completely published in 2004.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> Any later changes in the specification are minor updates. </p><p>The Theora reference implementation libtheora spent several years in <a href="/facts/Software_release_life_cycle/z4Q4RElA">alpha</a> and beta status.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:36" href="#fn:36"><sup>36</sup></a> The first alpha version was released on 25 September 2002 and the first beta version was released on 22 September 2007.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:37" href="#fn:37"><sup>37</sup></a> The first stable release of libtheora was made in November 2008.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:38" href="#fn:38"><sup>38</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:39" href="#fn:39"><sup>39</sup></a> Work then focused on improving the codec's performance in the <i>"Thusnelda"</i> branch, which was released as version 1.1 in September 2009 as the second stable libtheora release.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:40" href="#fn:40"><sup>40</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:41" href="#fn:41"><sup>41</sup></a> This release brought some technical improvements and new features, such as the new rate control module and the <a href="/facts/Two-pass_encoding/RrRLn4dl">two-pass rate control</a>. </p><p>The codename for the next version of libtheora was <i>Ptalarbvorm</i>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:42" href="#fn:42"><sup>42</sup></a> </p><p>Theora was well established as a video format in <a href="/facts/Open-source_software/HzTaB8E9">open-source applications</a>, and became the format used for <a href="/facts/Wikipedia/KDRNKWnc">Wikipedia</a>'s video content before replaced by <a href="/facts/VP9/dBP8ffoc">VP9</a>. However, the proposed adoption of Theora as part of the baseline video support in HTML5 <a href="/facts/Use_of_Ogg_formats_in_HTML5/X5zhCA12">resulted in controversy</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:43" href="#fn:43"><sup>43</sup></a> </p> <h3>Legacy</h3> <p>In October 2023, Google announced intent to remove Theora support from Chromium (finalizing removal by Google Chrome 123),<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:44" href="#fn:44"><sup>44</sup></a> with Firefox following suit. Google developers claimed that despite lack of adoption, Theora made a case for open and royalty-free codecs like <a href="/facts/AV1/d07UxHgf">AV1</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:45" href="#fn:45"><sup>45</sup></a>[<i>better source needed</i>] </p> <h2 id="performance">Performance</h2> <h3>Encoding performance</h3> <p>Evaluations of the VP3<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:46" href="#fn:46"><sup>46</sup></a> and early Theora encoders<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:47" href="#fn:47"><sup>47</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:48" href="#fn:48"><sup>48</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:49" href="#fn:49"><sup>49</sup></a> found that their subjective visual quality was inferior to that of contemporary video codecs. The performance characteristics of the Theora 1.0 reference implementation are dominated mostly by implementation problems inherited from the original VP3 code base.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:50" href="#fn:50"><sup>50</sup></a> Work that lead up to the 1.1 stable release focused on improving on or eliminating these. A May 2009 review of this work by Xiph developer Chris Montgomery claimed a considerable improvement in quality, both subjectively and as measured by <a href="/facts/PSNR/FPlWpNkI">PSNR</a>, by improving the forward <a href="/facts/Discrete_cosine_transform/gPpDhPwP">DCT</a> and quantisation matrices.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:51" href="#fn:51"><sup>51</sup></a> More recently however,[<i>when?</i>] Xiph developers compared the 1.1 Theora encoder to <a href="/facts/YouTube/db276jst">YouTube</a>'s H.264 and <a href="/facts/H.263%252B/KSxo04Gy">H.263+</a> encoders, in response to concerns raised in 2009 about Theora's inferior performance by <a href="/facts/Chris_DiBona/9xa1pnPs">Chris DiBona</a>, a <a href="/facts/Google/GT9Sugza">Google</a> employee.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:52" href="#fn:52"><sup>52</sup></a> They found the results from Theora to be nearly the same as YouTube's H.264 output, and much better than the H.263+ output.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:53" href="#fn:53"><sup>53</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:54" href="#fn:54"><sup>54</sup></a> </p><p>The differences in quality, bitrate and file size between a YouTube H.264 video and a transcoded Ogg video file are very small.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:55" href="#fn:55"><sup>55</sup></a> </p> <h3>Playback performance</h3> <p>There was an <a href="/facts/Open-source_software/HzTaB8E9">open-source</a> <a href="/facts/VHDL/H6Exdjfs">VHDL</a> code base for a hardware Theora decoder in development.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:56" href="#fn:56"><sup>56</sup></a>[<i>needs update</i>] It began as a 2006 <a href="/facts/Google/GT9Sugza">Google</a> <a href="/facts/Summer_of_Code/M8rDIn6W">Summer of Code</a> project, and it has been developed on both the <a href="/facts/Nios_II/sbFl05Wx">Nios II</a> and <a href="/facts/LEON/6Lxp8yNm">LEON</a> processors.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:57" href="#fn:57"><sup>57</sup></a> However, there are currently no Theora decoder chips in production, and <a href="/facts/Portable_media_player/2yHdHHKv">portable media players</a>, <a href="/facts/Smartphone/cSIrBMWG">smartphones</a> and similar devices with limited computing power rely on such chips to provide efficient playback. </p> <h2 id="playback">Playback</h2> <h3>Web browsers</h3> <p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Use_of_Ogg_formats_in_HTML5/X5zhCA12">Use of Ogg formats in HTML5</a></p> <p>As originally recommended by <a href="/facts/HTML_5/HBAxEAr6">HTML 5</a>, these browsers support Theora when embedded by the video element: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Mozilla_Firefox_3.5/rY5zzQvb">Mozilla Firefox 3.5</a> and later versions<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:58" href="#fn:58"><sup>58</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:59" href="#fn:59"><sup>59</sup></a> including <a href="/facts/Firefox_for_mobile/6jBazUVR">Firefox for mobile</a> (Fennec).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:60" href="#fn:60"><sup>60</sup></a> Theora was disabled by default in Firefox 126,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:61" href="#fn:61"><sup>61</sup></a> and support may be removed in the future due to low usage.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:62" href="#fn:62"><sup>62</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:63" href="#fn:63"><sup>63</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Google_Chrome/4INfWq37">Google Chrome</a> as of version 3.0.182.2<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:64" href="#fn:64"><sup>64</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:65" href="#fn:65"><sup>65</sup></a> including <a href="/facts/Chromium_(web_browser)/F1S8sAEt">Chromium</a> as of 14 July 2009.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:66" href="#fn:66"><sup>66</sup></a> Chrome 120 disabled support for Theora by default<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:67" href="#fn:67"><sup>67</sup></a> and the complete removal is expected in version 123.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:68" href="#fn:68"><sup>68</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Tizen/gNrC0mnG">Tizen</a> browser</li> <li><a href="/facts/SeaMonkey/CnD9WXc6">SeaMonkey</a> as of version 2.0.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:69" href="#fn:69"><sup>69</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Konqueror/qWCwNfur">Konqueror</a> 4.4.2<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:70" href="#fn:70"><sup>70</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:71" href="#fn:71"><sup>71</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Opera_(web_browser)/2NYCcTj1">Opera</a> as of version <a href="/facts/Opera_10/V36CKl0w">10.50</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:72" href="#fn:72"><sup>72</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:73" href="#fn:73"><sup>73</sup></a> It was also supported in <a href="/facts/History_of_the_Opera_web_browser/V36CKl0w">Opera 9.5</a> experimental video builds.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:74" href="#fn:74"><sup>74</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:75" href="#fn:75"><sup>75</sup></a> Stopped supporting Theora after version 107.</li> <li><a href="/facts/GNOME_Web/0hIb10Th">GNOME Web</a> uses WebKitGTK+ as its rendering engine. As WebKitGTK+ uses <a href="/facts/GStreamer/34EkSQAf">GStreamer</a> to implement the HTML5 media player, and all the formats GStreamer supports (including Theora) are available in browser.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Midori_(web_browser)/EjSByUSE">Midori</a> is another example of a browser that supports Theora by using WebKitGTK+.</li></ul> <h3>Supporting media frameworks</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/DirectShow/d7dPeQ5W">DirectShow</a> with use of <a href="/facts/OpenCodecs/HJCFzyyx">OpenCodecs</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/GStreamer/34EkSQAf">GStreamer</a> supported via Theora or FFmpeg module, supports GStreamer based applications e.g. <a href="/facts/Totem_(media_player)/wADQYQrS">Totem</a> and <a href="/facts/Songbird_(software)/hNRn5f9E">Songbird</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Phonon_(KDE)/HCaBxwFj">Phonon</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/QuickTime/rA3GQp2j">QuickTime</a> (including but not limited to Safari) with use of <a href="/facts/Xiph_QuickTime_Components/HJCFzyyx">Xiph QuickTime Components</a></li></ul> <h3>Supporting applications</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/FFmpeg/85yf3kHI">FFmpeg</a> (own implementation)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Helix_project/jrofyQmr">Helix Player</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Miro_Media_Player/w9S2c3lu">Miro Media Player</a> (formerly known as <a href="/facts/Democracy_Player/w9S2c3lu">Democracy Player</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/MPlayer/nfyW0yjn">MPlayer</a> and front-ends</li> <li><a href="/facts/Totem_(media_player)/wADQYQrS">Totem</a>, Moovida and all <a href="/facts/GStreamer/34EkSQAf">GStreamer</a>-based players</li> <li><a href="/facts/VLC_media_player/aNurLBXb">VLC</a> (native support)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Xine/gm2KJFor">xine</a> and all libxine-based players like <a href="/facts/Kaffeine/dcs5K1Q8">Kaffeine</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Dragon_Player/tb5tIcEK">Dragon Player</a> and all Phonon-based players</li></ul> <h2 id="encoding">Encoding</h2> <p>There are several third-party programs that support encoding through libtheora: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th rowspan="2">Name</th><th rowspan="2">Description</th><th colspan="3">Operating Systems Supported</th></tr><tr><td>Unix-like</td><td>OS X</td><td>Windows</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Ffmpeg2theora/85yf3kHI">ffmpeg2theora</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:76" href="#fn:76"><sup>76</sup></a></td><td>A command-line program that transcodes video by decoding with <a href="/facts/FFmpeg/85yf3kHI">FFmpeg</a> and reencoding with libtheora to encode it</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/VLC_media_player/aNurLBXb">VLC</a></td><td>Can transcode to single-pass Theora 1.0 and optionally stream it</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/FreeJ/XEpC5qg3">FreeJ</a></td><td>"Video DJing" software that can encode to and stream Theora</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Kdenlive/5B1TvBqE">Kdenlive</a></td><td>The video editor supplied with <a href="/facts/KDE/PCh32IWA">KDE</a></td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Pitivi/0MbdszMk">Pitivi</a></td><td>The video editor supplied with <a href="/facts/GNOME/EFMNBmpR">GNOME</a></td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/LiVES/J4wssJF5">LiVES</a></td><td>Video editing software for Linux. Can edit, encode and stream theora.</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/HandBrake/SYY3a9xX">HandBrake</a></td><td>Can output to Theora only with the <a href="/facts/Matroska/hDrffBx0">Matroska</a> container</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/RecordMyDesktop/FDVa5ybG">RecordMyDesktop</a></td><td>Records the screen to Ogg Theora with optional Vorbis audio</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>?</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The libtheora library contains the reference implementation of the Theora specification for encoding and decoding. libtheora was developed by the <a href="/facts/Xiph.Org_Foundation/HJCFzyyx">Xiph.Org Foundation</a>. The library was released under the terms of a <a href="/facts/BSD_licenses/XLtmLp5x">BSD-style license</a>. </p><p>Also, several media frameworks have support for Theora. </p> <ul><li>The open-source <a href="/facts/Ffdshow/H60dzfBG">ffdshow</a> audio/video decoder is capable of encoding Theora videos using its <a href="/facts/Video_for_Windows/SN0D0W3C">Video for Windows</a> (VFW) multi-codec interface within popular AVI editing programs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:77" href="#fn:77"><sup>77</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:78" href="#fn:78"><sup>78</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:79" href="#fn:79"><sup>79</sup></a> It supports both encoding and decoding Theora video streams and uses Theora's alpha 4 libraries. However, many of the more refined features of Theora are not available to the user in ffdshow's interface.</li> <li>The <a href="/facts/GStreamer/34EkSQAf">GStreamer</a> framework has support for parsing raw Theora streams, encoding and decoding raw Theora streams to/from YUV video<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:80" href="#fn:80"><sup>80</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:81" href="#fn:81"><sup>81</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="editing">Editing</h2> <table><tbody><tr><th rowspan="2">Name</th><th rowspan="2">Description</th><th colspan="3">Operating Systems Supported</th></tr><tr><td>Unix-like</td><td>OS X</td><td>Windows</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/LiVES/J4wssJF5">LiVES</a></td><td>Video editing software for Linux. Can edit, encode and stream theora.</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Kdenlive/5B1TvBqE">Kdenlive</a></td><td>The <a href="/facts/KDE/PCh32IWA">KDE</a> video editor.</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/OpenShot_Video_Editor/5XWC9Xwk">OpenShot</a></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Pitivi/0MbdszMk">Pitivi</a></td><td>The <a href="/facts/GNOME/EFMNBmpR">GNOME</a> video editor.</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Cinelerra/AERqKLyp">Cinelerra</a></td><td><a href="/facts/Concurrent_Versions_System/PKnqSra2">CVS</a> versions of the <a href="/facts/Cinelerra/AERqKLyp">Cinelerra</a> <a href="/facts/Non-linear_editing_system/xN4H6gw4">non-linear video editing system</a> support Theora, as of August 2005.</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td></tr><tr><td>oggz-tools by <a href="/facts/Xiph.org/HJCFzyyx">Xiph.org</a></td><td>Command line programs to examine and edit Ogg files.</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td>Ogg Video Tools by yornstreamnik</td><td>Tools to resize, cut, split, join, and others<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:82" href="#fn:82"><sup>82</sup></a></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/AVS_Video_Editor/0D1tl0ya">AVS Video Editor</a></td><td></td><td>?</td><td>?</td><td>Yes</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="streaming">Streaming</h2> <p>The following streaming media servers are capable of streaming Theora video: </p> <table><tbody><tr><th rowspan="2">Name</th><th rowspan="2">Description</th><th colspan="3">Operating Systems Supported</th></tr><tr><td>Unix-like</td><td>OS X</td><td>Windows</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/VLC_media_player/aNurLBXb">VLC</a></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/Icecast/GRpKc9Iz">Icecast</a></td><td></td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td><td>Yes</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/facts/LiVES/J4wssJF5">LiVES</a></td><td>Can stream ogg/theora/vorbis in realtime to a file or fifo.</td><td>Yes</td><td>Yes</td><td>?</td></tr></tbody></table> <h2 id="makers">Makers</h2> <p><a href="/facts/Elphel/GTsqNnWv">Elphel</a> is the main maker of cameras that record in theora. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul> <li>Free and open-source software portal</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Video_editing_software/Jxaro6Ej">Video editing software</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Comparison_of_video_codecs/Mq3ppaAy">Comparison of video codecs</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.theora.org/">Official website</a></li> <li><a href="http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/List_of_Theora_videos">Examples of Theora-encoded videos</a></li> <li><a href="http://maketelevision.com/log/why_ogg_theora_matters_for_internet_tv">Why Theora Matters for Internet TV</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.flossmanuals.net/ogg-theora/">Theora user manual</a></li> <li><a href="http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/theora/doc/draft-ietf-avt-rtp-theora-00.txt">RTP Payload Format for Theora Encoded Video – Xiph.Org</a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barbato-avt-rtp-theora-01">IETF Internet Draft</a></li> <li><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10289952-248.html">Wikipedia's controversial video player coming soon</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090805084233/http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-10289952-248.html">Archived</a> 5 August 2009 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li><a href="http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2010">H.264 and Theora codecs comparison</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Theora. <a href="http://www.theora.org" target="_blank">http://www.theora.org</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Xiph.Org Foundation. 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