Ogg Vorbis Share Reaches 12.3% on P2P Traffic

prostoalex writes "According to CacheLogic survey, 61.44% of the peer-to-peer traffic nowadays is video, with audio taking distant second place, representing 11.34% of global traffic. Moreover, 12.3% of all the music files traded on P2P networks are in Ogg format. Almost all of the OGG files are traded via BitTorrent protocol with most of the growth coming from Asia, CacheLogic says."

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Nice misleading title

[Anonymous Coward]

12.3% of MUSIC transfers, which is 11.34% of all traffic -- so Ogg makes up 1.4% of all P2P traffic. Which ain't bad at all, but is nowhere near 12.3

Re:Nice misleading title

[joebutton]

> Yeah, not many people download movies in OGG
> format, and the ones that do probably spend a lot
> of time trying to figure out why the sound works
> perfectly but the picture is so garbled.

Actually ogg is a container format which can contain both sound and video. Vorbis is the audio format.