OGV and OGG explained
OGV is the Ogg container carrying Theora video, an early royalty-free codec that has been comprehensively superseded by VP9 and AV1.
OGG here means Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free lossy codec that predates Opus. It is competitive with AAC and remains common in games.
- Where OGV files come from
- Open-source projects and Wikipedia media from the early 2010s.
- Where OGG is used
- Game audio, Spotify's older streams and open-source projects.