OGG Audio File Format Description:

Ogg is a free, open standard container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg format is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high quality digital multimedia.

The name ‘Ogg’ refers to the file format which can multiplex a number of separate independent free and open source codecs for audio, video, text (such as subtitles), and metadata.

In the Ogg multimedia framework, Theora provides a lossy video layer, while the music-oriented Vorbis codec most commonly acts as the audio layer. The human speech compression codec Speex, lossless audio compression codec FLAC, and OggPCM may also act as audio layers.

Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file and stream format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs. As with all Xiph.org technology is it an open format free for anyone to use.

As with most container formats it encapsulates raw compressed data and allows the interleaving of audio and video data inside a single convient format. Other examples of container formats are Quicktime .mov, the MPEG program stream, and AVI.

In addition to encapsulation and interleave of multiple data streams, Ogg provides packet framing, error detection, and periodic timestamps for seeking, and in a small, bounded percentage bitrate overhead.

Ogg is a stream oriented container, meaning it can be written and read in one pass, making it a natural fit for internet streaming and use in processing pipelines. This stream orientation is the major design difference over other file-based container formats.

Audio Transcoder supports the following conversions with OGG format files:

• OGG to AAC
• OGG to APE
• OGG to FLAC
• OGG to M4A
• OGG to M4B
• OGG to MP4
• OGG to SPX

• OGG to MP2
• OGG to MP3
• OGG to MPC
• OGG to WAV
• OGG to WMA

• AAC to OGG
• AC3 to OGG
• AIFF to OGG
• APE to OGG
• FLAC to OGG
• M4A to OGG
• MP+ to OGG
• MP1 to OGG
• MP2 to OGG
• MP3 to OGG
• MP4 to OGG
• MPC to OGG
• MPP to OGG
• OFR to OGG
• OFS to OGG
• SPX to OGG
• TTA to OGG
• WAV to OGG
• WMA to OGG
• WV to OGG


Note that Audio Transcoder is not only a great Audio Converter. It is all-in-one solution to convert any audio files - WAV, WMA, OGG,MP3,MP4, OGG and many others, rip Audio CD's, edit metadata (audio tags) .