Vorbis

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Vorbis

Summary

Vorbis is a lossy audio coding format[1]. Vorbis draws 703 Wikipedia views per month (lossy_audio_coding_format category, ranking #2 of 7).[2]

Key Facts

  • Vorbis's instance of is recorded as lossy audio coding format[3].
  • Vorbis's instance of is recorded as audio file format[4].
  • Exquisitor Vorbis is named after Vorbis[5].
  • Vorbis's developer is recorded as Chris Montgomery[6].
  • Vorbis's developer is recorded as Xiph.Org Foundation[7].
  • Vorbis is part of WebM[8].
  • Vorbis is used for lossy compression[9].
  • Vorbis's Commons category is recorded as Vorbis[10].
  • Vorbis was published on May 8, 2000[11].
  • Vorbis's official website is recorded as https://xiph.org/vorbis/[12].
  • Vorbis's media type is recorded as audio/vorbis[13].
  • Vorbis's media type is recorded as application/ogg[14].
  • Vorbis's media type is recorded as audio/vorbis-config[15].
  • Vorbis's media type is recorded as audio/ogg[16].
  • Vorbis's file extension is recorded as ogg[17].
  • Vorbis's file extension is recorded as oga[18].
  • Vorbis's file extension is recorded as sb0[19].
  • Vorbis's replaced by is recorded as Opus[20].
  • Vorbis's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/vorbis[21].
  • Vorbis's different from is recorded as Q96233686[22].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include lossy audio coding format[3] and audio file format[4].

Origins

Exquisitor Vorbis is named after Vorbis[5].

Use and Application

Vorbis is used for lossy compression[9]. Vorbis is part of WebM[8].

Why It Matters

Vorbis draws 703 Wikipedia views per month (lossy_audio_coding_format category, ranking #2 of 7).[2] Vorbis has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Vorbis is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . RFC 5215: RTP Payload Format for Vorbis Encoded Audio. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . RFC 5215: RTP Payload Format for Vorbis Encoded Audio. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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