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Ogg Vorbis - Free audio format

Ogg vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent and royalty free compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music and fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This puts Vorbis in the same class as audio representations including MPEG-1, audio layer 3, MPEG-s audio (AAC and TwinVQ) and PAC.

Vorbis can both encode and decode as a single pass, real-time stream, and requires roughly the same encoding and decoding power as mp3. We anticipate that it will get faster as time goes on. Ogg vorbis uses the Ogg bitstream format; the correct extension is .ogg.

Ogg vorbis was created because mp3 is not truly free: MPEG consortium members claim you cannot create an mp3 encoder without infringing on their patents.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/index.html
Source tarballhttp://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/libvorbis-1.0.tar.gz http://www.vorbis.com/files/1.0/unix/libogg-1.0.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.vorbis.com/download_unix.psp
Version 1.0 (stable) released on 2002-07-20
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User FAQ available in HTML format from http://www.vorbis.com/faq.psp; See http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/docs.html for a complete list of documentation
Support contacts

Announce List<vorbis@xiph.org>
Help List<vorbis@xiph.org> <vorbis-request@xiph.org> body: subscribe
Developer List<vorbis-dev@xiph.org> <vorbis-dev-request@xiph.org> body: subscribe
Bug List<vorbis@xiph.org> <vorbis-request@xiph.org> body: subscribe
Bug Databasehttp://bugs.xiph.org/

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@xiph.org:/usr/local/cvsroot login password: anoncvs http://www.xiph.org/cvs.html
Interfacescommand line, library
Source languagesC
Related programsXmms, jOggPlayer, Nogger, OggEnc, Ogmtools, vlorb, Vorbistools, Vorbix

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2001-01-31
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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