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Open Source Video Compression

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URL: https://www.cinegraphic.net/article.php?story=2005081108562130

Most video codecs are proprietary, but Theora is an open-source project for compressing video for web. While it's still only in alpha release (no executable version yet (you must compile your own) it does have a lot of promise for the future of web video.