presentations/audiocodecs/slides/12-vorbis.md

Vorbis

^{It doesn't stand for anything :(}

• Developed in 2000 by Xiph.Org Foundation
• Fully Open Standard and Royalty Free
• Extremely good software support
• Supports:
  • Floating point samples
  • 655.36kHz sampling rate
  • 255 audio channels
• Superseded by Opus

Music

Vorbis Music Sample

"The Show Must Be Go" by Kevin MacLeod

Licensed under CC-BY 3.0

Voice

Vorbis Voice Sample

LibriVox recording of "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu

Read by Moira Fogarty

Note: Encodes with quality presets, not constant/variable/target bitrates Floating point samples makes Vorbis very flexible, it's 32-bit floats though Fairly popular audiobook format Commonly paired with Therora video format Created because of a licensing dispute with MP3 FSF approved Standard is public domain Apple are weird and don't support it

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