Theora, a video codec developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, is tailored specifically for the Ogg container format. Tracing its roots back to the VP3 codec, Theora has continually evolved through open source development. It has been over 16 years since the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation was released, and this week marks the highly anticipated release of the libtheora 1.2 beta version.
