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Also known as Daala video codec, Daala video compression

Daala is a video coding format that was under development by the Xiph.Org Foundation, under the lead of Timothy B. Terriberry and mainly sponsored by the Mozilla Corporation. Like Theora and Opus, Daala is available free of any royalties and its reference implementation is being developed as free and open-source software. The name is taken from the fictional character of Admiral Natasi Daala from the Star Wars universe.

Key facts

File format.extension
.ogv
File format.icon
Xiph Daala logo.png
File format.icon_size
200px
File format.mime
video/ogg
File format.developer
Xiph.Org, Mozilla, IETF
File format.genre
Compressed Video
File format.open
Yes
File format.contained by
Ogg
File format.extendedto
AV1

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Daala is the codename for a new video compression technology. The effort is a collaboration between the Mozilla Foundation, the Xiph.Org Foundation and any other contributors that wish to help. The goal of the project is to provide a video format that's free to implement, use and distribute, and a reference implementation with technical performance superior to H.265. For more information, see the [Daala wiki][wiki]. The wiki has quickstart pages for [Linux/OS X][posix], [Windows][win], and [Windows MinGW64][mingw]. Daala uses the [GitHub Issue Tracker][issues] and the [Rietveld][code review] code review tool. [Jenkins][jenkins] is used for continuous integration. There's an IRC channel daala on chat.freenode.org. If you don't have IRC set up you can easily connect from your [web browser][webchat].

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Wikidata facts

Official website
xiph.org/daala
Image
Daala Rainbow Vomit Tiger.png
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file extension
ogv
media type
video/ogg
source code repository URL
github.com/xiph/daala
software version identifier
0.0
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  • Technology
  • History
  • NETVC
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

Daala is a video coding format that was under development by the Xiph.Org Foundation, under the lead of Timothy B. Terriberry and mainly sponsored by the Mozilla Corporation. Like Theora and Opus, Daala is available free of any royalties and its reference implementation is being developed as free and open-source software. The name is taken from the fictional character of Admiral Natasi Daala from the Star Wars universe.

The reference implementation is written in C and published, together with its source code, as free software under the terms of a BSD-like license. Software patents are being filed for techniques used in and developed for Daala. Those patents are freely licensed to everybody to use for any purpose. However, the patent holders reserve the right to use them to counter patent infringement lawsuits filed by others.

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