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Opus

Summary

Opus is a free format[1]. Opus draws 967 Wikipedia views per month (free_format category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Opus's image is recorded as Libopus 1.5.2 screenshot.webp[3].
  • Opus's instance of is recorded as free format[4].
  • Opus's instance of is recorded as lossy audio coding format[5].
  • Opus's based on is recorded as SILK[6].
  • Opus's based on is recorded as Constrained Energy Lapped Transform[7].
  • Opus's logo image is recorded as Opus logo2.svg[8].
  • Opus's developer is recorded as Jean-Marc Valin[9].
  • Opus's developer is recorded as Timothy B. Terriberry[10].
  • Opus's developer is recorded as Koen Vos[11].
  • Opus's developer is recorded as Xiph.Org Foundation[12].
  • Opus's part of is recorded as WebM[13].
  • Opus's has use is recorded as lossy compression[14].
  • Opus's has use is recorded as audio compression[15].
  • Opus's Commons category is recorded as Opus Audio Codec[16].
  • Opus's publication date is recorded as +2012-09-11T00:00:00Z[17].
  • Opus's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gvvjrm[18].
  • Opus's official website is recorded as https://opus-codec.org/[19].
  • Opus's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Opus Audio Codec[20].
  • Opus's Commons gallery is recorded as Opus (audio codec)[21].
  • Opus's media type is recorded as audio/ogg[22].
  • Opus's file extension is recorded as opus[23].
  • Opus's described by source is recorded as RFC 6716: Definition of the Opus Audio Codec[24].
  • Opus's replaces is recorded as Vorbis[25].
  • Opus's replaces is recorded as Speex[26].
  • Opus's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/opus[27].

Body

Publication

Opus's publication date is recorded as +2012-09-11T00:00:00Z[17]. Opus's part of is recorded as WebM[13].

Why It Matters

Opus draws 967 Wikipedia views per month (free_format category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] Opus has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Opus is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

Jean-Marc Valin Strawberry

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . hacks.mozilla.org. Retrieved . hacks.mozilla.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . hacks.mozilla.org. Retrieved . hacks.mozilla.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . hacks.mozilla.org. Retrieved . hacks.mozilla.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . opus-codec.org. Retrieved . opus-codec.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . lists.xiph.org. lists.xiph.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . RFC 7845: Ogg Encapsulation for the Opus Audio Codec. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Opus. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/opus
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_opus_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Opus}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/opus}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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