It is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open, and unpatented.
Few words about Ogg Vorbis CODEC project :
Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for mid to high quality (8kHz-48.0kHz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. This places Vorbis in the same competitive class as audio representations such as MPEG-4 (AAC), and similar to, but higher performance than MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3, MPEG-4 audio (TwinVQ), WMA and PAC.
Tags :
- Audio Codec Tag
26479 may be requested when Vorbis Ogg ACM Codec is missing.
- Audio Codec Tag
676F may be requested when Vorbis Ogg ACM Codec is missing.
- Audio Codec Tag
6771 may be requested when Vorbis Ogg ACM Codec is missing.
How to install Vorbis Ogg ACM Codec :
- Uncompress the files from
vorbis_ogg_acm.zip archive, right-click on the
vorbisacm.inf file and select
Install.
- You may encounter a prompt saying:
"The software you are installing for this hardware... has not passed Windows Logo testing..."; click on the
Continue Anyway button.
- Then check the installed codec. See
Checking Installed VIDEO and AUDIO Codecs In Windows XP guide.
