Last week, Xiph released Theora 1.1, marking a huge update in the way open video is encoded and decoded. Ogg Theora is a compression format that is increasingly being adopted for online video, largely because of the fact that it is open and royalty-free. Though the Theora format itself hasn’t been updated, Mozilla’s Christopher Blizzard does a great job in showing how the Theora 1.1 codec (compression-decompression software) brings huge improvements. These include better quality videos (which allows for lighter videos, size-wise), improved live streaming, a more efficient two-pass encoding system, and more.
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