On2 Technologies has announced that the source code of some products (multimedia player and server) along with the VP3 video codec already free of the responsibility of the nonprofit organization 
Xiph.org is handed over, even the open source Ogg Vorbis audio codec developed. Given the still impending license and Nutzungsgebuehren for MPEG-4 is an open source software suite to create, which is a free and freely developed an alternative to MPEG-4 and other similar products from Microsoft and Real. In approximately one years to the end product to be finished.
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