Vorbis audio compression
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.
The bitstream format for Vorbis I was frozen Monday, May 8th 2000. All bitstreams encoded since will remain compatible with all future releases of Vorbis.
Resources
- Visit Vorbis.com to get set up to use vorbis, find music, and more.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- A format specification and related documentation are available on this site.
- The libvorbis reference implementation provides both a standard encoder and decoder under a BSD license. [Source download] [SVN trunk]
- The Tremor reference decoder provides an integer-only implementation of the decoder for embedded devices [SVN trunk] [low-memory branch]