My eyes have seen you

Theora is an open video codec. perhaps; since i don't know the difference between a codec, an encoder, a format. i could distinguish a player from the foregoing. there are however also media containers. So the open source eager beaver coders don't actually have to do anything but skin up the container and reduce it to a subset of functions of their choice.



It comes from the open source Xiph.org Foundation and community; which in part speaks french.







They are the people who brought us the Ogg Vorbis and FLAC audio codecs.





There is a Theora wiki



which lists links to Theora video players like ITheora. It is an alternative to proprietary players and flash video. Their motto is "you can tube but I Theora".



Both the theora wiki and ITheora link to Theora Sea, a video sharing area that links to videos that the users themselves host locally rather than upload.