liboggplay, liboggz, libfishsound migrated to git.xiph.org

The source repositories for some Ogg libraries developed as part of the Annodex project have moved from from svn.annodex.net to git.xiph.org. These libraries are:

• liboggplay, an Ogg Theora playback library used by Mozilla Firefox;
• libfishsound, a simplified API for using audio codecs, used by liboggplay and the by the DirectShow Oggcodecs; and
• liboggz, a library for seeking, reading and writing Ogg (used by liboggplay), and tools for managing Ogg streams. This includes oggz-chop, which is used by various sites including the Internet Archive to serve Ogg files.

Reasons for the migration

Xiph.org, which develops free codecs (Ogg Vorbis, Theora, Dirac, Speex, CELT, FLAC), already provided the hosting for Annodex.net projects. The move to the xiph.org domain reflects that these libraries are recommended for general use by projects requiring Ogg support.

The move from Subversion to Git allows for distributed development, letting developers without write access to the central Subversion repository develop code using a version control system, and making it easier for developers and packagers to track multiple independent changes. Among distributed version control systems, Git was chosen for its flexibility and popularity. It is already used within Xiph.org for Speex, the ultra-low latency, high quality audio codec CELT, and the experimental text overlay codec Kate.

Checking out the sources

To do a fresh checkout of the code, make a new git repository This assumes that you begin with an empty working directory:

$ git clone git://git.xiph.org/liboggz.git

Adding a remote to an existing git-svn checkout

Many developers already used git-svn to access the previous svn repositories. In this case you will already have a local git clone of the sources, perhaps with your own local changes. In that case, simply add a new remote to your existing repository, eg.:

$ git remote add xiph git://git.xiph.org/liboggz.git