Can someone explain Ogg Vorbis (new audio format)?

[2002_Horn]

Just curious. I understand a little about compression of music files, I was just wondering if someone could further explain why this is different than *.mp3, especially b/c I am looking into buying an iPod.

Thanks.

 

[Ags_EE]

Basically, it's an open format audio compression standard. So it's free as in beer and as in speech, whereas the other formats are only free as in beer. From what I hear, it's somewhat better than MP3 at the same bitrates. Still, unless you like to rip your own stuff to Vorbis, or download a lot of stuff in that format, it's not a neccessity. Anyways, if you're getting an iPod or the like, you should be ripping at 256k or higher, at which point the differences between compressed audio and CDs are unnoticable by 95%+ of the population on 95%+ of equipment.

 

[linux]

Here is a good article
The Link

Like I bitched before about .wmv people should try to stay away from propeitary codecs.

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[TexasOwnzYou]

doesnt ogg have something to do w/ closed captioning on video files?

i have a couple of .ogm files and i needed the ogg vorbis this to play 'em.

 

[linux]

I guess you could use it for that purpose, it is basically the same as an mp3 obviously with a different compression algorithm, it is free (maybe GPL) and it is supposedly better quality, my perception reguarding audio is not as great as others.

 

[TTUStudent]

its far from new.