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Format

Ogg Multimedia Container

Summary

Name
Ogg Multimedia Container
Identifiers
  • MIME: application/ogg
  • PUID: fmt/944
Format type
  • Audio
  • Video
Description
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The Ogg container format can multiplex a number of independent streams for audio, video, text, and metadata. In the Ogg multimedia framework, Theora provides a lossy video layer. The audio layer is commonly provided by the music-oriented Vorbis format. Other audio coding format options include the Opus compression format, the lossless audio compression format FLAC, Speex for low bitrate voice data, and OggPCM for uncompressed PCM audio. This generic entry applies where available PRONOM signatures for Ogg do not yet apply to the file in question. In this instance you may wish to contact pronom@nationalarchives.gov.uk to help improve PRONOM's signatures.
File extensions
ogg, ogv, spx, opus
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Relationships

Can contain
Has lower priority than

Internal signatures

Ogg Container

Note
Capture pattern (“OggS”); stream structure revision (00h); flag: 1st page of a logical bitstream (02h)

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
4F6767530002
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V86

    Release date
    27 July 2016

    Ogg Multimedia Container: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.

    Ogg Multimedia Container: Full entry added.