Projects

libvorbis

Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as ... [More] audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MP3 and WMA. [Less]

Matroska

Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it significantly because it is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain ... [More] significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility, without breaking file support in old parsers. [Less]

Freeware Advanced Audio Coder

The FAAC project includes the AAC encoder FAAC and decoder FAAD2. It supports several MPEG-4 object types (LC, Main, LTP, HE AAC, PS) and file formats (ADTS AAC, raw AAC, MP4), multichannel and gapless en/decoding as well as MP4 metadata tags. The codecs are compatible with standard-compliant audio applications using one or more of these profiles.

KatchTV

A podcatcher and broadcatcher for KDE. It lets you watch TV and listen to Radio shows from the net, for free. KatchTV is independent of channel and feed publishers, including Miro's channel guide, and others too. It includes Bittorrent support, and is capable of downloading large movies, in ... [More] parallel, while you watch something else. Integrates with Konqueror, and KDE media players. KatchTV is an Internet TV broadcatcher and podcatcher, similar to Miro, but for KDE. Supported features include: * Video podcasts ("vodcasts"). * Bittorrent-based broadcatching. * Audio podcasts. * Multiple background downloads of media and updates of feeds, all while you watch/listen to your favourite shows. * Manages any media you download, so that you don't lose track of your disk space. [Less]