When a developer seeks to stream background ambience for a mobile game or a filmmaker wishes to package a soundtrack without blowing through licensing costs, they will almost inevitably arrive at the ...

Ogg's time has come -- again. In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's ...

Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format. The official release of the audio encoding and streaming technology has ...

Hack #70 from iPod & iTunes Hacks by Hadley Stern (O’Reilly Media). Turn iTunes into an Ogg Vorbis–playing application and enjoy the fruits of open source ripping and playing. The MP3 and AAC file ...

Oh, wise A/V-philes, I seek your counsel. I've got an iPod, so my music collection is mostly MP3. My previous MP3 players supported other formats, so it used to be a mixed bag, but when I got the iPod ...

I've got an OGG stream (in a .ogg file on disk) that I want to process. I'm trying to programmatically build a list of track/album/artist and timstamp in the stream by going through the file and ...

Video codecs attract most of the attention in the multimedia format wars, from Theora adoption in HTML5 to debates about the subjective quality and objective technical demands of Dirac versus H.264.