For all those open media codec lovers out there: mark 16th June in your calenders - you’ll be able to take a sneak preview at liboggplay!

liboggplay is a library that enables applications (such as Firefox) to provide native decoding of remotely hosted Ogg Theora and Annodex files.

And to celebrate the occasion - and to help everyone get started on including the functionality into their apps - there’s a celebratory codefest:

16th June, 10am, Macquarie University, Sydney see http://trac.annodex.net/wiki/AnnodexCodeFestJun07 for details.