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Kevin Karhan

Apr 27, 2025

@ezra you do realize that #AV1 is a superset of #VP9?

https://wetdry.world/@ezra/114407858544159170

You could add #VP3.2 (#Theora), & #VP8 instead...

a number 6 with ezra dip :neocat_flag_androgyne: (@ezra@wetdry.world)

Attached: 1 image ezr's guide to the only three codecs they like

Wet-Dry World

Neustradamus :xmpp: :linux:Apr 20, 2025

#libtheora 1.2 has been released (#Theora / #VideoCodec / #Codec / #Xiph / #libogg / #libvorbis / #On2 / #On2VP3 / #VP3) https://xiph.org/theora/

Xiph.org :: theora main

Mr. V Apr 5, 2025

I still can't make mpv work again...

I don't know if it is still broken for everyone or if I have broken it even more...

I dropped the old version of libtheora as suggested and messed around with the symlinks and I don't know how to get it back to "normal".

(I use multilib, alienbob and kde6 repos)

I currently have this mess in /lib64:

https://pastebin.com/tSNudSku

#slackware #linux #ffmpeg #theora

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 abr 5 11:54 libtheora.so -> libtheora.so.1.4 - Pastebin.com

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Pastebin

frater mus Jan 31, 2025

After trying many, many audio apps I 've been using an audiobook player (Smart Audiobook Player) for #podcasts for a few years.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ak.alizandro.smartaudiobookplayer

I d/l my podcasts $ELSEWHERE and use ffmpeg to convert to #opus audio, normalizing and reducing bandwidth. Recently a good many of these have been coming up "corrupted" in the player.

I used the ``file`` util to examine; it showed them as #theora video. What? I loaded up in #vlc and there was a "cover image". Some quick google-fu advised adding ``-map 0:a`` to restrict to purely audio in the #ogg container; worked great!

Smart AudioBook Player - Apps on Google Play

This application is full of useful features for playing audio books

Carlos Solís Nov 8, 2023

I still remember when #Theora was the only video codec that @wikipedia could use due to licensing issues. It was like three or four times larger than the then-current H.264 equivalent file, and encoding quality was questionable at best. How fast does time pass, we've since gone through #VP8, #VP9 and now #AV1 is positioning itself as the ultimate video codec, trading blows more or less evenly with H.265. Oh and don't even get me started with the #Opus audio codec! Theora will be fondly remembered by the free software community.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/theora_video_codec_deprecation/

Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox

Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur

The Register

Marcus Adams Nov 7, 2023

#Mozilla Eyes Removal Of #Theora Support In #Firefox

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Eyes-Dropping-Theora

Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox

Maxi 12x 💉Nov 2, 2023

Mozilla Eyes Removal Of #Theora Support In Firefox

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Eyes-Dropping-Theora

Google Chrome To Remove Theora Video Codec Support

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Chrome-Dropping-Theora

Mozilla Eyes Removal Of Theora Support In Firefox

❄️ freezr ❄️Oct 30, 2023

I found this interesting post on the #Phoronix Forum:

This means that if I want to make my website invisible to people using Chromium-based browsers, I need only render the pictures in JPEG-XL and the videos in Theora. Sounds good to me. What method should I use to make the text invisible as well? Are there any fonts not rendered by Chromium?
Will the Google-bot stop indexing Theora videos? Does it index JPEG-XL pictures?

Please to all the #Gemini clients #developers — @jk @op @cage — make your client able to render #JPEGXL images and #THEORA codec videos.