OGG and Opus explained
OGG here means Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free lossy codec that predates Opus. It is competitive with AAC and remains common in games.
Opus is the current state of the art for lossy audio, and the codec behind most voice calls you make over the internet. It performs well across an unusually wide range, from 6 kbps speech to transparent music.
- Where OGG files come from
- Game audio, Spotify's older streams and open-source projects.
- Where Opus is used
- Voice and video calls, modern podcast pipelines and WebRTC.