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17 Facts About Vorbis

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Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.

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Vorbis is most commonly used in conjunction with the Ogg container format and it is therefore often referred to as Ogg Vorbis.

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3.

Vorbis is a continuation of audio compression development started in 1993 by Chris Montgomery.

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4.

The Vorbis project started as part of the Xiphophorus company's Ogg project .

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5.

Originally licensed as LGPL, in 2001 the Vorbis license was changed to the BSD license to encourage adoption, with the endorsement of Richard Stallman.

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6.

Org has stated that the use of Vorbis should be deprecated in favor of the Opus codec, which is a Xiph.

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7.

Vorbis is named after a Discworld character Exquisitor Vorbis in Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett.

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8.

Vorbis format has proven popular among supporters of free software.

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9.

Many video games store in-game audio as Vorbis, including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Halo: Combat Evolved, Minecraft, and World of Warcraft, among others.

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10.

Vorbis aims to be more efficient than MP3, with data compression transparency being available at lower bitrates.

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11.

Vorbis uses the modified discrete cosine transform for converting sound data from the time domain to the frequency domain.

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12.

Vorbis metadata, called Vorbis comments, supports metadata tags similar to those implemented in the ID3 standard for MP3.

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13.

Org Foundation has not released an official statement on the patent status of Vorbis, pointing out that such a statement is technically impossible due to the number and scope of patents in existence and the questionable validity of many of them.

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Vorbis is supported by several large digital audio player manufacturers such as Samsung, SanDisk, Rio, Neuros Technology, Cowon, and iriver.

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Org Foundation wiki has an up-to-date list of Vorbis-supporting hardware, such as portables, PDAs, and microchips.

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16.

Vorbis is supported in the multi-platform audio editing software Audacity, in the multi-platform multimedia frameworks FFmpeg, GStreamer and Helix DNA.

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17.

Vorbis is well-supported on the Linux platform in programs like XMMS, xine, Amarok.

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