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Vorbis is a general-purpose audio and music encoding format contemporary to
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MPEG-4's AAC and TwinVQ, the next generation beyond MPEG audio layer 3. Unlike
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the MPEG sponsored formats (and other proprietary formats such as RealAudio G2
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and Windows' flavor of the month), the Vorbis CODEC specification belongs to
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the public domain. All the technical details are published and documented, and
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any software entity may make full use of the format without royalty or patent
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concerns.
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This package contains libvorbis, an LGPLed software implementation of the
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Vorbis specification by the Xiphophorus company (http://www.xiph.org/), and
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vorbisfile, an LGPLed convenience library built on Vorbis designed to simplify
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common uses.
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WWW: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
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