Opus and OGG explained
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.
OGG here means Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free lossy codec that predates Opus. It is competitive with AAC and remains common in games.
- Where Opus files come from
- Voice and video calls, modern podcast pipelines and WebRTC.
- Where OGG is used
- Game audio, Spotify's older streams and open-source projects.