Theora and Vorbis things everybody should know about
Here are just a few things I think every open standards loving geek should know about:
Thoggen
The easiest DVD ripping utility ever. Just click, click and wait. That's it. Everybody should have it installed.
See: http://thoggen.net/
OggConvert
The simplest "anything-to-theora" converter, with Matroska container support and Dirac encoding thrown in for free.
See: http://oggconvert.tristanb.net/
Istanbul
A desktop session recording tool with Theora output support. It's very simple to use and will record your complete desktop into a neat little Theora movie.
See: http://live.gnome.org/Istanbul
Firefox 3.1
Finally, in browser Theora support.. bring on those <video> tags, even in within SVG!
See: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.1b3/releasenotes/
FireOgg
This is a Firefox plugin which allows you to recode videos to Theora all through a simple plugin. Uploading a video will be handled using 1MB chucks, which means that uploading is more fault tolerant even for larger files.
See: http://firefogg.org/