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Ogg

扩展名	.ogv, .oga, .ogx, .ogg
互联网媒体类型	video/ogg, audio/ogg, application/ogg
开发者	Xiph.Org 基金会
格式类型	Container format
作为容器	Vorbis、Theora、Speex、FLAC、Dirac等等

Ogg是一个自由且开放标准的容器格式，由Xiph.Org 基金会所维护。Ogg格式并不受到软件专利的限制，并以设计用于有效率地串流媒体资讯和处理高品质的多媒体。

“Ogg”意指一种文件格式，可以纳入各式各样自由和开放源代码的编解码器，包含音效、视频、文字（像字幕）与元数据的处理。

在Ogg的多媒体框架下，Theora提供有损的影像层面，而通常用音乐导向的Vorbis编解码器作为音效层面。人类演说的压缩编解码器Speex、无损的音效压缩编解码器FLAC和OggPCM也可能作为音效层面使用。

“Ogg”这个词汇通常意指Ogg Vorbis此一音频文件格式，也就是将Vorbis编码的音效包含在Ogg的容器中所成的格式。在以往，.ogg此一副档名曾经被用在任何Ogg支援格式下的内容，但在2007年，Xiph.Org基金会为了向后相容的考量，提出请求，将.ogg只留给Vorbis格式来使用。 Xiph.Org基金会决定创造一些新的副档名和媒体格式来描述不同类型的内容，像是只包含音效所用的.oga，包含或不含声音的影片（涵盖Theora）所用的.ogv和程式所用的.ogx。

Xiph.Org基金会的目前版本的参照实装是2005年11月27日释出的libogg 1.1.3.另一个版本libogg2也可以在Xiph.Org基金会的SVN套件库中找到。这两个库都是在新BSD许可证下释出的自由软件。

因为其格式自由，和其参照实装并非Copyleft形式，无论自由或专有、商业或非商业的媒体播放器，甚至部分制造商的便携式媒体播放器和全球定位系统接收器都采用了Ogg下的各种编解码器。

Naming

It is sometimes assumed that the name Ogg comes from the character of Nanny Ogg in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. However, it derives from ogging, jargon from the computer game Netrek which came to mean doing something forcefully, possibly without consideration of the drain on future resources. At its inception, the Ogg project was thought to be somewhat ambitious given the power of the PC hardware of the time.

File format

The Ogg bitstream format, spearheaded by the Xiph.Org Foundation, has been created as the framework of a larger initiative aimed at developing a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content which are available free of charge and are freely re-implementable in software.

The format consists of chunks of data each called an Ogg Page. Each page begins with the "OggS" string to identify the file as Ogg format.

A serial number and page number in the page header identifies each page as part of a series of pages making up a bitstream. Multiple bitstreams may be multiplexed in the file where pages from each bitstream are ordered by the seek time of the contained data. Bitstreams may also be appended to existing files, a process known as chaining, to cause the bitstreams to be decoded in sequence.

A BSD-licensed library, called libogg, is available to encode and decode data from Ogg streams. Independent Ogg implementations are used in several projects such as RealPlayer and a set of DirectShow filters.

Page structure

The following is the field layout of an Ogg page header:

The field layout of an Ogg page header

Capture Pattern - 32 bits

The capture pattern or sync code is a magic number used to ensure synchronisation when parsing Ogg files. Every page starts with the four byte sequence 'OggS'. This assists in resynchronising a parser in cases where data has been lost or is corrupted, and is a sanity check before commencing parsing the page structure.

Version - 8 bits

This field indicates the version of the Ogg bitstream format, to allow for future expansion. It is currently mandated to be 0.

Header Type - 8 bits

This is an 8 bit field of flags, which indicates the type of page which follows. The rightmost or least significant bit is considered bit 0, with value 0x01, the next least significant digit is bit 1, with value 0x02. The third is bit 2, with value 0x04, and so on.

Bit	Value	Flag	Page type
0	0x01	Continuation	The first packet on this page is a continuation of the previous packet in the logical bitstream.
1	0x02	BOS	Beginning Of Stream. This page is the first page in the logical bitstream. The BOS flag must be set on the first page of every logical bitstream, and must not be set on any other page.
2	0x04	EOS	End Of Stream. This page is the last page in the logical bitstream. The EOS flag must be set on the final page of every logical bitstream, and must not be set on any other page.

Granule Position - 64 bits

A granule position is the time marker in Ogg files. It is an abstract value, whose meaning is determined by the codec. It may for example be a count of the number of samples, the number of frames or a more complex scheme.

Bitstream Serial Number - 32 bits

This field is a serial number which identifies a page as belonging to a particular logical bitstream. Each logical bitstream in a file has a unique value, and this field allows implementations to deliver the pages to the appropriate decoder. In a typical vorbis+theora file, one stream will be the audio (vorbis), and the other will be the video (theora)

Page Sequence Number - 32 bits

This field is a monotonically increasing field for each logical bitstream. The first page is 0, the second 1, etc. This allows implementations to detect when data has been lost.

Checksum - 32 bits

This field provides a checksum of the data in the entire page, performed with the checksum field set to 0. This allows verification that the data has not been corrupted since it was created. Pages which fail the checksum should be discarded.

Page Segments - 8 bits

This field indicates the number of segments that exist in this page. It also indicates how many bytes are in the segment table which follows this field. There can be a maximum of 255 segments in any one page.

Segment Table

The segment table is an 8 bit vector of values indicating the length of each segment within the page body. The number of segments is determined from the preceding Page Segments field. Each segment is between 0 and 255 bytes in length.

The segments provide a way to group segments into packets, which are meaningful units of data for the decoder. When the segments length is indicated to be 255, this indicates that the following segment is to be concatenated to this one and is part of the same packet. When the segments length is 0-254, this indicates that this segment is the final segment in this packet. Where a packets length is a multiple of 255, the final segment will be of length 0.

Where the final packet continues on the next page, the final segment value will be 255, and the continuation flag will be set on the following page to indicate that the start of the new page is a continuation of last page.

Metadata

Currently, there is no official standard for including metadata in Ogg containers. Implementation is still a long way off as of Quarter 3, 2007. The Xiph.Org Foundation are currently welcoming suggestions and feedback. Suggested metadata implementation methods include the following:

• Dublin core in RDF
• XML-encoding (options include generic RDF, CMML, and XMP)
• MusicBrainz XML MetaData
• Ogg Skeleton is emerging as the way to approach machineable metadata.

Metadata must currently be included in the codec. There is fairly good software support for Vorbis metadata—often referred to as comments. But software support for Theora and FLAC comments in Ogg containers is very limited.

History

The “Play Ogg” web button

In May 2003, two Internet RFCs were published relating to the format. The Ogg bitstream was defined in RFC 3533 (which is classified as 'informative') and its Internet content type (application/ogg) in RFC 3534 (which is, as of 2006, a proposed standard protocol).

Although Ogg hasn't reached anywhere near the ubiquity of the MPEG standards (e.g.: MP3 / MP4), as of 2006, it is commonly used to encode free content (such as free music, multimedia on Wikimedia projects and Creative Commons files) and has started to be supported by a significant minority of digital audio players. Also supporting the Ogg format have been many popular video game engines, including Doom 3, Unreal Tournament 2004, Myst IV: Revelation, Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Lineage 2 and the Grand Theft Auto engines. The more popular Vorbis codec has built-in support on many software players, and extensions are available for nearly all the rest. Other codecs are less well supported, although extensions are often available.

On May 16, 2007, the Free Software Foundation started a campaign to increase the use of Vorbis “as an ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to the proprietary MP3 format.” People are also encouraged to support the campaign by adding a web button to their website or blog. For those who don't want to download and use FSF's suggested Ogg player (VLC), the Xiph.Org Foundation has an official codec for QuickTime-based applications in Windows and Mac OS X, such as iTunes players and iMovie applications; and Windows users can install a Windows Media Player Ogg codec.

Ogg codecs

Ogg is only a container format. The actual audio or video encoded by a codec will be stored inside an Ogg container. Ogg containers may contain streams encoded with multiple codecs, for example, an audio video file may contain data encoded by both an audio codec and a video codec.

Being a Container format, Ogg can embed audio and video in various formats (such as MPEG-4, Dirac, MP3 and others) but usually Ogg is used with the following:

• Audio codecs
  • lossy
    • Speex: handles voice data at low bitrates (~8-32 kbit/s/channel)
    • Vorbis: handles general audio data at mid- to high-level variable bitrates (~16-500 kbit/s/channel)
  • lossless
    • FLAC: handles archival and high fidelity audio data

• Text codecs
  • Writ: a text codec designed to embed subtitles or captions
  • CMML: a text/application codec for timed metadata, captioning, and formatting

• Video codecs
  • Theora: based upon On2's VP3, it is targeted at competing with MPEG-4 video (for example, encoded with DivX or Xvid), RealVideo, or Windows Media Video.
  • Tarkin: an experimental codec utilizing discrete wavelet transforms in the three dimensions of width, height, and time. It has been put on hold since February 2000, with Theora becoming the main focus for video encoding.
  • Dirac: an experimental codec developed by the BBC as the basis of a new codec for the transmission of video over the Internet. The Schrödinger project aims to provide portable libraries, written in C, that implement the Dirac codec. It also allows to embed Dirac inside the Ogg container format.
  • OggUVS: a draft codec for storing uncompressed video.

• Subtitle structures
  • Annodex: A free and open source set of standards developed by CSIRO to annotate and index networked media.

See also

• Audio data compression
• Comparison of container formats
• LRC (file format)

External links

• （英文）Xiph.Org 基金会官方网站 — Ogg
• （英文）RFC 3533 — The Ogg Encapsulation Format Version 0
• （英文）RFC 3534 — The application/ogg Media Type
• （英文）在Ogg container中使用Creative Commons Metadata
• （英文）Ogg etymology from the Jargon File
• （英文）Xiph.Org的官方 Ogg QuickTime元件，适用于iTunes和iMovie（Windows与MacOS X）
• （英文）Vorbis, Speex, Theora and FLAC用的Windows Media Player codec