LEAD Theora Encoder Also known as compressor, this is a module or algorithm to compress data. Playing that data back requires a decompressor, or decoder.

The LEAD Theora Encoder is a DirectShow A multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files. Most Windows video-related applications on Windows, such as Microsoft's Windows Media Player, use DirectShow to manage multimedia content.Ò encoder for compressing video data using Theora compression. Theora is an open video codec developed by the Xiph.org foundation aimed at offering a patent-free alternative to MPEG-4. The compression is comparable to MPEG-2, H.263, MPEG-4 and H.264 and, unlike these codecs, the Theora codec is free of patent fees.

For more information, you can go to http://www.xiph.org and http://theora.org.

The compression options for the LEAD Theora Encoder can be set manually through the encoder property page. They can also be set programmatically through the ILMTheoraEncoder interface.

Technical details for the filter are provided in the following table:

LEAD Theora Encoder User Interface