Overview¶

This wiki aims to become a collection of web resources, tutorials and comparisons of free video codecs.

Codecs¶

• theora free video codec from xiph.org

• dirac video codec developed by the BBC

• vp8 Google's video codec for web video ( webm )

• ffv1 lossless ffmpeg video codec

• huffyuv lossless video codec

Container Formats¶

• matroska

• ogg

• webm

General¶

• Gstreamer pipelines - A method to work with many video and audio-formats.

• http://linuxrising.org/ - A transcoding tool build upon gstreamer.

Streaming¶

nothing here yet

Tests¶

• LosslessArchiving - some tests on using lossless codecs to archive videos in one format

this and that¶

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