OGV and Opus explained
OGV is the Ogg container carrying Theora video, an early royalty-free codec that has been comprehensively superseded by VP9 and AV1.
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 OGV files come from
- Open-source projects and Wikipedia media from the early 2010s.
- Where Opus is used
- Voice and video calls, modern podcast pipelines and WebRTC.