Saturday, 19 January 2013

Ogg Vorbis Sound Files

What are Ogg Vorbis sounds files a.k.a. .ogg files? Ogg Vorbis is an audio compression format comparable to MP3. Ogg is a container format for audio, video and metadata maintained by xiph.org. Vorbis is the specific audio compression scheme used.

According to the Vorbis technical specification, the codec is based on the Modified Discrete Cosine Transform (MDCT) which is also used in the MP3 format. Vorbis is, however, computationally simpler than MP3 but requires more working memory.

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