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Name Ogg Multimedia Container
Version  
Other names  
Identifiers MIME:  application/ogg
PUID:  fmt/944
Family  
Classification Audio, Video
Disclosure  
Description Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg container format can multiplex a number of independent streams for audio, video, text, and metadata. In the Ogg multimedia framework, Theora provides a lossy video layer. The audio layer is commonly provided by the music-oriented Vorbis format. Other audio coding format options include the Opus compression format, the lossless audio compression format FLAC, Speex for low bitrate voice data, and OggPCM for uncompressed PCM audio. This generic entry applies where available PRONOM signatures for Ogg do not yet apply to the file in question. In this instance you may wish to contact pronom@nationalarchives.gov.uk to help improve PRONOM's signatures.
Orientation Text
Byte order  
Related file formats Can contain Ogg Vorbis Codec Compressed Multimedia File  
Can contain Ogg Theora Video  
Can contain Ogg Opus Codec Compressed Multimedia File  
Can contain Ogg FLAC Compressed Multimedia File  
Can contain Ogg Speex Codec Multimedia File  
Has lower priority than Ogg Vorbis Codec Compressed Multimedia File  
Has lower priority than Ogg Theora Video  
Has lower priority than Ogg Opus Codec Compressed Multimedia File  
Has lower priority than Ogg FLAC Compressed Multimedia File  
Has lower priority than Ogg Speex Codec Multimedia File  
Technical Environment  
Released  
Supported until  
Format Risk  
Developed by None.
Supported by None.
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 21 Jul 2016
Source description  
Last updated 21 Jul 2016
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