OGV and FLAC explained
OGV is the Ogg container carrying Theora video, an early royalty-free codec that has been comprehensively superseded by VP9 and AV1.
FLAC compresses audio losslessly, typically to about half the size of WAV. Decompressed, it is bit-for-bit identical to the original — the compression is mathematical, not perceptual.
- Where OGV files come from
- Open-source projects and Wikipedia media from the early 2010s.
- Where FLAC is used
- Hi-fi music libraries and archival rips of physical media.