Projects tagged ‘xiph’

FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC format supports streaming, seeking, and archival, and gives 25-75% compression on typical CD audio. Input plugins for Winamp and XMMS are also provided.

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 ... [More] places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MP3 and WMA. [Less]

Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file and stream format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs. As with all Xiph.org technology is it an open format free for anyone to use. libogg is the reference library for demultiplexing and mutiplexing files in the ogg multimedia format.

Theora is a free and open video compression format from the Xiph.org Foundation. Like all our multimedia technology it can be used to distribute film and video online and on disc without the licensing and royalty fees or vendor lock-in associated ... [More] with other formats. Theora scales from postage stamp to HD resolution and beyond, and is considered particularly competitive at low bitrates. [Less]

Directshow filters for Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Speex and FLAC. Allows these formats to be played in Windows Media Player and other Directshow players. Also includes encoding filters for these formats. The project is distributed under a BSD license.

Xiph QuickTime Components (XiphQT) is a set of QuickTime and Macintosh OS X plug-ins. Their role is to provide support for Xiph media compression and container formats. If you are an end user: installing XiphQT components is all you need to start ... [More] using Xiph-formatted media files in a variety of applications - for example, listening to Ogg/Vorbis files in QuickTime Player or iTunes. The programming interfaces used in XiphQT allow the provided functionality to be available transparently to all media handling applications using QuickTime or OS X component mechanisms. If you are a programmer, you have built a Macintosh Core Audio or QuickTime-based application and would like to add Xiph formats support: most of the time there is hardly anything you will need to do to add support. [Less]

theFrontend is an audio conversion software with graphical user interface for Windows. This is an Open Source and easy to use software for everyone. Easy usage with predefined presets for newbies and xml-based configuration files and command-line ... [More] interface for advanced users. Full UNICODE support and no additional dependences on external DLL libraries for main program (some tools may require additional DLLs). [Less]

libSpiff brings XSPF playlist reading and writing support to your C++ application. Both version 0 and 1 are supported. libSpiff uses Expat for XML parsing and CppTest for unit testing. libSpiff is the official reference implementation for XSPF of the Xiph.Org Foundation.