Lossless Ogg?

[ac16161]

I see references around the web to it being possible to create lossless Ogg files, eg OggPCM, is that the case? Is it something dBpoweramp could support?

[Jailhouse]

Re: Lossless Ogg?

From this Wikipedia article:

[…] Ogg was intended to be, and usually is, used with the following Xiph.org free codecs:

Audio
[…]
Lossless
FLAC handles archival and high fidelity audio data.

So OggPCM is just FLAC wrapped in a container. I don't see the use in that.

[Spoon]

Re: Lossless Ogg?

Very little will play ogg-flac files.

[ForSerious]

Re: Lossless Ogg?

Not that this adds much, but I want to add that ogg was meant to be a general media container. I have a game that has ogg video files in it, but they have the same ogg extension.