WordPress.com, the parent service of VideoPress and the infrastructure behind our video upload and processing systems, experienced 110 minutes of unscheduled downtime. An unscheduled change to a core router by a WordPress.com datacenter provider knocked the site offline. VideoPress video files, hosted on our content delivery networks, were unaffected by the outage. Full details regarding the downtime are available on the WordPress.com blog.

VideoPress supports Ogg Theora 1.1 video, better known as “Thusnelda” to enthusiastic developers tracking the project for its over one-year development. Theora 1.1 offers better-looking videos at the same bitrates, a much faster playback decoder, and support for two-pass encoding for even better looking videos. Read more about the Ogg Theora 1.1 release at Xiph.org.

Publishers interested in the Ogg container format will notice higher quality videos optimized for low-complexity playback on mobile devices.