Ogg Vorbis Presentation for

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Ogg Vorbis Presentation for
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• How many have heard of MP3 file format?

• How many have downloaded, traded, ripped, burned,
  listened to MP3s?

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Ogg Vorbis

• How many have heard of Ogg Vorbis file format?

• How many have downloaded, traded, ripped, burned,
  listened to Ogg Vorbis files?

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Ogg Vorbis

• Describe what Ogg Vorbis is

• Compare and/or Contrast Ogg Vorbis and MP3

• Create an Ogg Vorbis file under Linux

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What is Ogg Vorbis

• Ogg Vorbis is a new audio compression format

• Used to store and play audio formats like MP3

• Ogg Vorbis files have the .ogg file extention

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What is Ogg Vorbis

• Ogg is a wrapper format, somewhat similar to MS
  Active Streaming form or Apples Quicktime

• Vorbis is Codec, which means compression/decompres
  sion to save space

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Advantages of Ogg Vorbis

• Ogg Vorbis is an open source project

• Ogg Vorbis take up less storage space

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Ogg Vorbis Example

• http//www.vorbis.com/intro.html

• The Who song, This Song is Over, a six minute
  song

• As a .wav, it is 66mb

• As a .mp3 at 192Kbps, 9mb

• As a .ogg at 192Kbps, 6.1mb

• Ogg has range of 128 to 350Kbps

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Advantages of Ogg Vorbis

• But, why does it sound better?

• Ogg uses uses different mathematical principles
  than MP3

• Ogg uses encoders with a quality bitrate setting
  from zero to ten

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Ogg Vorbis

• But most important, Ogg Vorbis is open standards

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Compare/Constrast Ogg Vorbis

• MP3s are tied down by patents/royalties/licenses,
  owned by Fraunhofer Gesellschaft

• Notice lack of free MP3 encoder/rippers

• Notice no MP3 player with latest RH 8.0 Distro

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Ogg Vorbis HOWTO

• So you want to create your own .ogg audio files

• How do I do it?

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Ogg Vorbis Windows HOWTO

• Simple Drag-and-Drop

• .MP3 to .WAV to .Ogg

• Lossy Problem

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Ogg Vorbis Windows HOWTO
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Ogg Vorbis Linux HOWTO

• Grip

• For both KDE and Gnome

• Easy to use GUI

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Ogg Vorbis Linux HOWTO
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Ogg Vorbis Linux HOWTO

• XMMS to play .ogg files

• Need plugins libogg-1.0 libvorbi-1.0

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Ogg Vorbis Linux HOWTO

• Convert MP3 to OGG

• MP3 to Vorbis, mp32ogg, mp32ogg.pl

• Lossy Problems

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Ogg Vorbis URLs
http//www.vorbis.com/
http//www.linuxnewbie.org/
http//nostatic.org/grip/
http//www.xmms.org/
http//freshmeat.net/
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Thanks!!!