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Encyclopedia > Ogg Media

Ogg Media (OGM), meaning Ogg Media File, is a container format (for video, audio and subtitle streams). It was developed by Tobias Waldvogel and can do a few things the common AVI format cannot. OGM's features include in particular: Ogg is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia, unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation. ... A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed by means of standardized codecs. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Closed captioning. ... AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ...

  • Chapter support
  • Multiple subtitle tracks
  • Multiple audio tracks of various formats (MP3, AC3,AAC,Vorbis, LPCM)
  • Vorbis audio support (there is no "correct" way for AVI to support Vorbis, making any attempt potentially incompatible and unreliable)

OGM support for Windows (Including Microsoft's Windows Media Player) is available via Tobias's own OggDS, Haali Media Splitter, VLC, or RadLight's Ogg Media filters (the last of which can also decode Theora video). On Unix-based systems OGM support is available in MPlayer, xine and VLC. For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ... Look up AAC in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a digital representation of an analog signal where the magnitude of the signal is sampled regularly at uniform intervals, then quantized to a series of symbols in a digital (usually binary) code. ... Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... VLC media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. ... Theora is a video codec being developed by the Xiph. ... This article is about the open source media player. ... xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name Maxine without Ma[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. ... VLC media player is a free software media player by the VideoLAN project. ...


Fundamentally, the format is a hack of the Ogg container format, which had only been designed to support encoders endorsed by Xiph.org (website), the creators of Ogg. It is most likely going to be viewed as a temporary solution, to be phased out when other media container formats (for example, Matroska) mature and come to support the same services.[citation needed] Hack has several meanings in the technology and computer science fields: a clever or quick fix to a computer program problem; a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem; illegally breaking into a computer, generally over a network connection; or a modification of a program or device to give the... Ogg is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia, unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation. ... The Xiph. ... // The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free multimedia container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. ...


Originally, a major drawback of OGM was that it was not free software / open source, even though it was based on the open-source Ogg framework. The reason was that Tobias was embarrassed about the quick-dirty-hack quality of his code, wanting to improve it before releasing it to the keen eyes of the Xiph.org people [citation needed]. Tobias has officially joined the Xiph.org team since, and has donated all the code of his DirectShow filters — including format manipulation and playback — to their BSD-style free software licensed repository. It is available, though without documentation, in the "oggds" module of the repository. Another implementation is available in Moritz Bunkus' ogmtools package. This article is about free software as used in the sociopolitical free software movement; for non-free software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... Open source software is computer software whose source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... This article is about Free Software as defined by the sociopolitical Free Software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ...


OGM files most often carry video encoded in the MPEG-4 ASP format and audio in Vorbis or AC-3 (Dolby Digital).[citation needed] MPEG-4 Part 2 is a video compression technology developed by MPEG. It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standard (ISO/IEC 14496-2). ... Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ...

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Software encoding in OGM

Linux / BSD

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Mac OS X

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Windows

VirtualDubMod is an open source video capture and linear processing tool for Microsoft Windows. ... Emergency brake handle in a German train around 1920 An emergency brake is a brake system that is generally only to be used in emergency situations to slow or stop a machine. ...

See also

Free software Portal

Image File history File links Portal. ... A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed by means of standardized codecs. ... This table compares features of container formats. ... The following is a list of codecs. ... This is a listing of open source multimedia codecs and containers. ... Comparison of video codecs - is a process of codecs evaluation of similarities and differences. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio codecs. ...

Competing technologies

  • VOB the container format used in DVD-Video (uses .VOB .IFO and .BUP combined as extensions)
  • ratDVD closed source proprietary format based on VOB (the DVD-Video container format)
  • DivX Media Format (DMF) from DivX, Inc. (uses .divx as extension), includes support for DVD-Video like menus
  • Matroska (MKV) open source (uses .mkv as extension) includes support for DVD-Video like menus
  • MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4, currently support everything NUT does
  • NUT patent-free open source and extensible multimedia container

A VOB file (DVD-Video Object or Versioned Object Base) is a container format contained in DVD-Video media. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... IFO is a DVD InFOrmation file that stores information about Chapters, Subtitles and Audio Tracks. ... BUP is the filename extension of some files stored on video DVDs. ... The ratDVD logo ratDVD is a highly compressed file type, containing all the contents of a Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) movie. ... Proprietary indicates that a party, or proprietor, exercises private ownership, control or use over an item of property, usually to the exclusion of other parties. ... A VOB file (DVD-Video Object or Versioned Object Base) is a container format contained in DVD-Video media. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... DivX is a video codec created by DivX, Inc. ... DivX, Inc. ... DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... // The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free multimedia container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. ... Matroska is a project to develop an open source multimedia container format similar to Apples QuickTime or Microsofts Advanced Streaming Format. ... Matroska (common file extensions being . ... The DVD-Video format logo. ... MPEG-4 Part 14, formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003, is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. ... MPEG-4 is a standard used primarily to compress audio and visual (AV) digital data. ... NUT is a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available multimedia container formats such as AVI or Matroska. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...

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