Ogg is the umbrella for a group of several related multimedia and signal processing projects that are open source and royalty free. Development of these projects is controlled by Xiph.org.
First and best-known project of these is called Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free audio compression technology.
Ogg Vorbis
Ogg Vorbis is an "open-source" digital audio compression format. like MP3, It is a "lossy" compression system, removing frequencies deemed inaudible. Both formats offer variable-bitrate encoding options, for better efficiency. But the algorithms Ogg Vorbis uses to decide which information to discard differ from those used by MP3. Proponents claim that the Ogg Vorbis format outperforms MP3, producing files that are significantly smaller than MP3s of similar sound quality (or files that sound better than similarly sized MP3s).
Ogg is a patent-free, fully open multimedia bitstream container format designed for efficient streaming and file compression (storage).
The name "Ogg" hence refers to the file format which includes a number of separate independent open source codecs for both audio and video. Files ending in the .ogg extension may be of any Ogg media filetype, and because the format is free, Ogg's various codecs have been incorporated into a number of different free and commercial media players.
The term "Ogg" sometimes incorrectly refers to the Vorbis audio codec. Other prominent components of Ogg are its video codec Theora, and the human speech audio compression format, Speex.
How to convert OGG to MP3, WAV or WMA.
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