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Open-source audio wins MP3 player support
News Open-source audio technology Ogg Vorbis will get its first official entrée into a commercial portable MP3 player next month. Vorbis, an audio codec comparable to MP3 or Windows Media Audio, was created by open-source programmers to give developers...
[February 25, 2003, 9:59]
Open-source music format ready to play
News On Thursday, the companies behind the rival MP3 format released an updated version of their technology called MP3Pro, which halves the amount of disk space needed to store a song at a given audio quality.
[June 18, 2001, 9:56]
MP3 alternative gets Real
News RealNetworks said on Wednesday that it would support the Xiph.org Foundation's Ogg Vorbis format and audio codec, or compression formula, in its own open-source offering, the Helix DNA client, and that the RealOne Player and the Helix Universal...
[July 26, 2002, 9:36]
Turbolinux reaches out to Microsoft
News Several other companies, mostly device makers, have also begun integrating the underlying Microsoft audio and video codecs, or format support into their products, a Microsoft spokesman said. Better audio and video support is one issue in the...
[April 28, 2004, 8:50]
Video format turns to open-source developers for aid
News But On2 is facing a powerful challenger in the standards arena: MPEG-4, a next-generation compression format for video and audio and the successor of technologies behind the MP3 audio explosion. Video-compression provider On2 Technologies plans to...
[June 24, 2002, 8:42]
Real enables Windows Media on Linux
News RealNetworks is also evaluating adding support for the AAC compression format, an audio compression format used by Apple's iTunes and others, he said, though that would require further licensing actions for the company.
[August 16, 2006, 8:40]
RealNetworks reveals code in single Helix
News The open-source client, which RealNetworks calls the "Helix DNA Client," includes code for the company's RealOne media player and its audio and video codecs. The company also embarked on a strategy of supporting in its products any digital media...
[October 30, 2002, 13:21]
Winamp glitch may benefit open source
News A recently disclosed vulnerability in an old version of the popular Winamp media player could provide a boost for the royalty-free alternative to the MP3 format known as Ogg Vorbis. Although the vulnerability is a setback for Nullsoft, it could...
[May 2, 2002, 11:58]
Open-source MP3 competitor goes mobile with Zaurus
News Ogg Vorbis is an open-source project aimed at creating an audio compression-decompression format similar to MP3, but free of patents and licence fees. MP3, or MPEG Audio Layer 3, has become the de facto standard for trading audio files over the...
[April 12, 2002, 17:08]
Ogg Vorbis enters the living room
News When the DP-450 appeared in October, it was the first DVD player to include a decoder for the DivX compression format, which has seen success in Internet video similar to MP3's success in audio. A Danish consumer electronics maker has unveiled the...
[January 14, 2003, 15:24]
Ogg Vorbis plays with hardware support
News Ogg Vorbis, an audio format created to provide a royalty-free alternative to MP3, could at last be making its way into portable digital audio players. The format reached a milestone 1.0 release earlier this year, and now the Xiph.org Foundation...
[September 4, 2002, 13:31]
Open-source rival to MP3 released
News Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The team behind the Ogg Vorbis format is the Xiph Foundation, which serves as a non-profit parent for the open-source...
[July 22, 2002, 9:25]
Mozilla gives £70k grant for open-source video
News Theora is a lossy video compression layer used in Ogg, which is an open container format used for streaming and multimedia. The most popular audio layer used in Ogg is Vorbis. The Mozilla Foundation, which oversees Firefox and other open-source...
[January 28, 2009, 15:15]
AudioRackSuite
Downloads AudioRack Suite supports eight players (by default, configurable for more or less) which can play any QuickTime supported audio file format or play through from an audio input device. The system is composed of three major components: arserver...
[September 16, 2009, 17:58]
Sbooth Max
Downloads If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes.
[August 31, 2009, 7:02]
DVDPlayer for Nokia Communicator
Downloads You may need to download additional codecs for encoding the files: DivX (http://www.divx.com), or XviD codec (http://www.koepi.org)Supported languages: English, German.Supported movie format (if you do not want to use Lathe): AVI file max...
[September 5, 2005, 7:00]
BBC launches open-source video technology
News The corporation is also working on the material exchange format (MXF), which will be used for exchanging multimedia data. We intend to wrap Dirac inside MXF with an audio stream plus synchronisation data and metadata," he added.
[October 6, 2004, 12:50]
Digital media: will Microsoft win again?
News MPEG-4 is seen as a possible successor to MP3, the hugely popular audio format for compressing music digitally. Technically, its media tools will produce the open-source format, but analysts say the process still requires the use of the company's...
[June 25, 2002, 14:48]
Open-source tool creates OOXML docs for the blind
News Microsoft has helped develop an open-source tool that translates Word files into a "talking" digital book format, which makes documents easily accessible for the 160 million people worldwide with impaired vision.
[May 14, 2008, 8:58]
Hackers' video technology goes open source
News The DivX code is based on the MPEG-4 video standard, a successor to the technology that gave the world the popular MP3 audio format. In the music world, open source programmers are creating a new music format with ambitions similar to those Bezdek...
[January 17, 2001, 9:42]
