[vorbis] Meaning of...

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Norberto Bensa wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm curious, what Ogg and Vorbis stand for?
> 
> I run a mailing list for my customers here, and I've made a commentary on
> Ogg/Vorbis a few days ago, someone ask me the meaning of those words.

Ogg is a container format designed for streaming media (audio/video/text/smells/etc).

Vorbis is a lossy audio codec.  It is almost always stored inside an Ogg
bitstream.

Some day, you'll be able to get Ogg movies, which will just be a Tarkin
(video) substream and a Vorbis (audio) substream multiplexed into the same Ogg
file.  (And maybe subtitles in a text stream yet to be defined.)


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Stan Seibert

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