Vorbis

Vorbis is a patent-clear, fully open general purpose audio encoding format standard that rivals or surpasses the 'upcoming' generation of proprietary coders (AAC and TwinVQ, also known as VQF). Vorbis is most often used in the Ogg container format. It is then called Ogg Vorbis.

libvorbis, a BSD-licensed source implementation of Vorbis as a library is available; See the Ogg Vorbis page for documentation, downloads and distribution terms.

Further, many players support Ogg Vorbis; see vorbis.com for a list of all the players we know about.

More information

• VorbisHardware: List of hardware-players supporting Ogg Vorbis
• VorbisSoftwarePlayers: List of media players that can play Ogg Vorbis
• VorbisSoftwareEncoders: List of libvorbis frontends
• VorbisDecoders: List of decoders (e.g. Xiph, Tremor, JOrbis, etc)
• VorbisEncoders: List of encoders (e.g. Xiph, aoTuV, GT, vorbis-java)
• VorbisTools: Reference tools maintained by Xiph.org
• Games that use Vorbis: List of games using Ogg Vorbis
• VorbisStreams: Stations streaming with the Vorbis codec
• Mapping in Ogg: useful information for developers

External links

• Vorbis.com
• Wikipedia: Vorbis
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