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Also known as OGA, Ogg File Format
Ogg is a digital multimedia container file format designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of digital multimedia. It is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is free and open, unrestricted by software patents. Its name is derived from "ogging," jargon from the computer game Netrek, alluding to the high processing cost of early versions of the software.
Key facts
- File format.name
- Ogg
- File format.extension
- .ogg, .ogv, .oga, .ogx, .ogm, .spx
- File format.mime
- video/ogg, audio/ogg, application/ogg
- File format.magic
- OggS
- File format.owner
- Xiph.Org Foundation
- File format.genre
- Container format
- File format.container for
- Vorbis, Theora, Speex, Opus, FLAC, Dirac, and others.
- File format.open
- Yes
- File format.free
- Yes
- Software.name
- libogg
- Software.logo
- Ogg Logo.svg
- Software.developer
- Xiph.Org Foundation
- Software.latest_release_version
- 1.3.6
- Software.genre
- Reference implementation (multiplexer/demultiplexer)
- Software.license
- BSD-style license
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- multimedia container
- Has part
- Dirac
- Developer
- Xiph.Org Foundation
- Official website
- xiph.org/ogg
- Has use
- reference implementation
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- file extension
- ogm
- media type
- audio/x-ogg
- Commons category
- Ogg format
- described at URL
- raw.githubusercontent.com/wader/fq/master/format/ogg/ogg.go
- file format identification pattern
- 4F6767530002
- copyright license
- permissive free software license
- inception
- 2003-00-00
- exact match
- rs.tdwg.org/format/values/m032
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Naming
- File format
- Page structure
- Metadata
- History
- OGM
- 2006
- 2007
- 2009
- 2010
- Ogg codecs
- Media types
- See also
- References
- External links
Ogg is a digital multimedia container file format designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of digital multimedia. It is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is free and open, unrestricted by software patents. Its name is derived from "ogging," jargon from the computer game Netrek, alluding to the high processing cost of early versions of the software.
The Ogg container format can multiplex a number of independent streams for audio, video, text (such as subtitles), and metadata. In the Ogg multimedia framework, Theora provides a lossy video layer. The audio layer is most commonly provided by the music-oriented Vorbis format or its successor Opus. Lossless audio compression formats include FLAC, and OggPCM.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ogg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.