Porting open, patent free codecs to our devices has always been of great interest to neuros and many of our users. As some of you Neuros old timers may recall, we were the first to port the Ogg Vorbis audio codec to a portable HDD audio player. Now it's time, hopefully, to do the same with the Ogg Theora video codec. This project is exciting to me, not just because it will allow us to support another codec, but because will put hackers directly in contact with technical resources and personnel at TI. Marcello Guedes is actually being mentored by a TI engineer, Jason Kridner and supported by TI with equipment, etc. If we can be successful in this project, I believe it will only further open TI's eyes about the potential and effectiveness of community development.

See the evolving theora wiki page for more information.