[TriLUG] Ogg vs. mp3

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 10:57, Daniel Monjar wrote:
> What is the benefit of Ogg over mp3 format?  Is it just a legal thing or 
> are there size and/or audio benefits to Ogg as well?

Nitpick:  Ogg is technically the container format and Vorbis is the
audio codec that most people currently use.  You can also embed Speex (a
speech codec), Theora (a video codec, still in alpha), and FLAC (a
lossless audio codec) in Ogg containers.  Other formats can
theoretically be embedded as well (as well as multiple in one container
even), those are just the projects under the Xiphorophorous umbrella
being ogg-y these days.

The other responses have done a good job of describing the benefits of
Vorbis over mp3, though.

Cheers,

Jeremy