liboggplay

Submitted by silvia on Wed, 08/06/2008 - 10:41.

OggPlay is a library that simplies decoding and playback of Ogg media files.

There are several layers to a typical ogg playing application:

  1. Parsing of the ogg container format (handled by libogg and made usable by liboggz) and routing of packets
  2. Decoding of individual ogg packets (handled by libtheora, libvorbis, libfishsound, libcmml, etc. depending on contents)
  3. Maintenance of synchronisation between individual raw data streams
  4. Presentation of raw data to the user (via the screen / sound card / etc.)

liboggplay handles the first 3 layers for you, leaving just the actual presentation for the application writer.

Documentation of OggPlay can be read at online.

Further documentation is provided in the source tarball.