Press releases
December 31, 2007: A Balance of 2007
A retrospective of the year 2007 and the many changes that happened in the Xiph.Org Foundation, including major updates to all core projects. ...(read on)
December 12, 2007: Xiph.Org Statement Regarding the HTML5 Draft and the Ogg Codec Set
Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance. Ogg is not fantasy or vapourware. It is widely deployed, tested, and reviewed. Ogg has already stood the test of time. ... (read on)
December 6, 2004: Fluendo funds Xiph.org for Vorbis and Theora RTP specifications
Fluendo is taking another step towards being able to offer the world high-quality streaming using standard royalty-free formats. By giving content producers and software makers the opportunity to use the popular Vorbis and Theora formats together with the IETF-standardized Real Time Protocol, reach and use of these formats will be increased even further. ... (read on)
April 17, 2003: Emmett Plant Exits as Xiph.Org CEO
The Xiph.Org Foundation today announced the termination of its contracting relationship with Emmett Plant. He served as acting CEO since May 2002, working to build relationships with certain strategic partners in order to further the Foundation's efforts. ... (read on)
24 March, 2003: Speex Goes 1.0; Xiph.Org now a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization
After a year of development, Speex has finally hit the big-time and gone to version 1.0. Speex is a CELP-based free and open audio compression codec specifically tuned to compress human speech at bitrates ranging from 2 to 44 kbps. The bitstream and API are now officially frozen. ...(read on)
January 29, 2003: FLAC Joins Xiph.Org
Many moons ago, the Ogg project started with a codec called ‘Squish.’ Squish was an attempt to build a royalty-free lossless audio codec. Someone had a trademark on the word ‘Squish,’ so the name was changed to ‘Ogg Squish.’ This was an extremely minor setback, but there was another obstacle to the project on the horizon. ... (read on)