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Technical Objections To the Ogg Container Format

Posted by timothy on from the do-these-objections-matter-on-modern-hardware? dept.

E1ven writes "The Ogg container format is being promoted by the Xiph Foundation for use with its Vorbis and Theora codecs. Unfortunately, a number of technical shortcomings in the format render it ill-suited to most, if not all, use cases. This article examines the most severe of these flaws."

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  1. Re:already slashdotted ? by alsaan · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google cache link: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:http://hardwarebug.org/2010/03/03/ogg-objections/&hl=en&strip=1

  2. Re:what is the point, exactly. by Dragoniz3r · · Score: 5, Informative

    Because, in general, you don't only want a video stream. You want to be able to bundle multiple streams together (usually of different types, eg an audio stream and a video stream). Vorbis, for example, is audio. Theora would be video. Ogg (the container) exists to bundle them together into a single file, so you can have a movie and sound with it.