[7] Chris Montgomery, creator of the Ogg container format, founded the Xiphophorus company and later the Xiph.Org Foundation.

[15] In 1999, the Xiphophorus company defined itself on its website as "a distributed group of Free and Open Source programmers working to protect the foundations of Internet multimedia from domination by self-serving corporate interests.

"[15] In March 2003, the Xiph.Org Foundation was recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization,[17] which means that U.S. citizens can deduct donations made to Xiph.Org from their taxes.

OpenCodecs is a software package for Windows adding DirectShow filters for the Theora and WebM codecs.

It adds Theora and WebM support to Windows Media Player and enables HTML video in Internet Explorer.