Daala

I just found out Xiph.org is working on a next-gen video codec Daala!

That's great news because libtheora development seems to have almost stopped which is no suprise because afterall it's an outdated codec. WebM and other free codecs perform better then Theora and it's reasonable to assume it will be used less and less in the future.

link: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

Clearly the future of this library is in supporting multiple codecs, but not in a way to make a widespread streaming frontend such as GStreamer. The goal of libtheoraplayer is to be minimalistic, lightweight and fast, developed in the good 'ol Unix spirit: "Do one thing and do it well".

But as I've said before, inspite of multiple supported codecs, the name of the library will remain THEORAplayer for historical purposes and as a tribute to the first trully open and free codec.