Editing Theora (section)

==Encoding==
There are several third-party programs that support encoding through libtheora:

{| style="text-align: center;" class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" | Name
! rowspan="2" | Description
! colspan="3" | Operating Systems Supported
|-
| style="width: 10%;" | Unix-like
| style="width: 10%;" | OS X
| style="width: 10%;" | Windows
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[ffmpeg2theora]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/|title=ffmpeg2theora|website=v2v.cc|access-date=2 June 2009|archive-date=11 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080311021714/v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
| style="text-align: left;" | A command-line program that transcodes video by decoding with [[FFmpeg]] and reencoding with libtheora to encode it
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[VLC media player|VLC]]
| style="text-align: left;" | Can transcode to single-pass Theora 1.0 and optionally stream it
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[FreeJ]]
| style="text-align: left;" | "Video DJing" software that can encode to and stream Theora
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| ?
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[Kdenlive]]
| style="text-align: left;" | The video editor supplied with [[KDE]]
| {{yes}}
| ?
| ?
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[Pitivi]]
| style="text-align: left;" | The video editor supplied with [[GNOME]]
| {{yes}}
| ?
| ?
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[LiVES]]
| style="text-align: left;" | Video editing software for Linux. Can edit, encode and stream theora.
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| ?
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[HandBrake]]
| style="text-align: left;" | Can output to Theora only with the [[Matroska]] container
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
| {{yes}}
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
; [[RecordMyDesktop]]
| style="text-align: left;" | Records the screen to Ogg Theora with optional Vorbis audio
| {{yes}}
| ?
| ?
|}

The libtheora library contains the reference implementation of the Theora specification for encoding and decoding. libtheora was developed by the [[Xiph.Org Foundation]]. The library was released under the terms of a [[BSD licenses|BSD-style license]].

Also, several media frameworks have support for Theora.

* The open-source [[ffdshow]] audio/video decoder is capable of encoding Theora videos using its [[Video for Windows]] (VFW) multi-codec interface within popular AVI editing programs.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/ | title=ffdshow Summary | date=10 March 2019 | access-date=19 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite mailing list | url=http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/theora-dev/2002-October/001329.html | date=4 October 2002 | title=Theora support in ffdshow a ffvfw | mailing-list=theora-dev | last=Cutka | first=Milan}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=2459&sid=6a8a488dd3aebb9e35764e950de65d60 | title=Theora in .ogg no only .avi – ffdshow tryouts Forum | date=15 January 2008 | access-date=23 October 2009}}</ref> It supports both encoding and decoding Theora video streams and uses Theora's alpha 4 libraries. However, many of the more refined features of Theora are not available to the user in ffdshow's interface.
* The [[GStreamer]] framework has support for parsing raw Theora streams, encoding and decoding raw Theora streams to/from YUV video<ref>{{cite web | url=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/theora/index.html?gi-language=c | title=theora | author=gstreamer.freedesktop.org  | access-date=19 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gst-plugins-base-plugins/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-plugin-theora.html | title=GStreamer Base Plugins 0.10 Plugins Reference Manual – Theora plugin library | author=gstreamer.freedesktop.org  | access-date=23 October 2009}}</ref>