1 Vorbis is a general purpose audio and music encoding format
2 contemporary to MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ, the next generation beyond
3 MPEG audio layer 3. Unlike the MPEG sponsored formats (and other
4 proprietary formats such as RealAudio G2 and Windows' flavor of the
5 month), the Vorbis CODEC specification belongs to the public domain.
6 All the technical details are published and documented, and any
7 software entity may make full use of the format without royalty or
10 This package contains:
12 - libvorbis, a BSD-license software implementation of the Vorbis
13 specification by the Xiphophorus company.
15 - libvorbisfile, a BSD-license convenience library built on Vorbis
16 designed to simplify common uses.
18 - libvorbisenc, a BSD-license library that provides a simple,
19 programmatic encoding setup interface.
21 WWW: https://www.xiph.org/vorbis/