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Open container format by Xiph.Org Foundation

Ogg is a digital multimedia container file format designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of digital multimedia. It is maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and is free and open, unrestricted by software patents. Its name is derived from "ogging," jargon from the computer game Netrek, alluding to the high processing cost of early versions of the software. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: OggA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Protection from refuge: From refugee rights to migration management . By Kate Ogg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 215 pp. $110.00 hardcoverInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: The Linux CookbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Development of an enzymatic DNA repair assay for molecular epidemiology studies: Distribution of OGG activity in healthy individualsCited 97 times
  5. Go sideways: Xiph.Org FoundationA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Ogg SquishA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Ogbogolo.

đŸ—‚ïž The subject at a glance

  1. Naming
  2. File format
  3. History
  4. Ogg codecs

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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