Open ogg file

ogg file icon Did your computer fail to open ogg file? We explain what ogg files are and recommend software that we know can open your ogg files.

What is ogg file?

Files with ogg file extension can be typically found as sounds or music in Ogg Vorbis compressed audio format.

ogg file description

The ogg file extension is used for Ogg Vorbis compressed audio format. Ogg is fairly new audio compression format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store and play digital music, such as mp3 and other digital audio formats. OGG is different from these other formats because it is completely free, open audio file format.

Ogg is the name of Xiph.org's container format for audio, video, and metadata.

Vorbis is the name of a specific audio compression scheme that's designed to be contained in Ogg. Note that other formats are capable of being embedded in Ogg such as FLAC and Speex.

Illiminable's ogg directshow filters will let you play your Ogg Vorbis files in Windows Media Player, and other DirectShow based players. Players not based on DirectShow do not need these filters.

Software that will open ogg file

VLC media player

One of the most popular multi-platfom multimeda player

Microsoft Windows Media Player

The default multimedia player from Microsoft Windows

Other ogg file extensions

ogg - Origin graphic file

Files with ogg extension are associated with Origin. They contain some graphics.

ogg - Salt Lake Winter Olympics 2002 game data

An ogg file extension is related to the Salt Lake Winter Olympics 2002 game data.

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the file name, so for example filename.mp3 has file extension „mp3“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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