Christopher "Monty"[1] Montgomery (born June 6, 1972[2][3]) is an American programmer and engineer. He is the original creator of the Ogg Free Software container format and the Vorbisaudio codec and others, and the founder of The Xiph.Org Foundation, which promotes public domain multimedia codecs. He uses xiphmont as an online pseudonym.
A multimedia programmer, free software advocate and musician,[5] Monty resides in the Boston area. He previously worked for Red Hat on improving the quality of the Ogg Theora format and decoders. In October 2013, he announced[6] his almost immediate switch to Mozilla. Work on Daala will be an important part of his work there.[needs update]
Montgomery was the evening keynote at the Ohio LinuxFest in September 2010.
^Valin, J. M.; Terriberry, T. B.; Montgomery, C.; Maxwell, G. (2010-01-01). "A High-Quality Speech and Audio Codec With Less Than 10-ms Delay". IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. 18 (1): 58–67. arXiv:1602.05526. doi:10.1109/TASL.2009.2023186. ISSN1558-7916. S2CID11516136.