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Oggz provides a simple programming interface for reading and writing Ogg files and streams. Ogg is an interleaving data container developed by Monty at Xiph.Org, originally to support the Ogg Vorbis audio format.

Tools

The Oggz source tarball also contains the following command-line tools, which are useful for debugging and testing Ogg bitstreams:

• oggzdump: Hexdump packets of an Ogg file, or revert an Ogg file from such a hexdump.
• oggzdiff: Hexdump the packets of two Ogg files and output differences.
• oggzmerge: Merge Ogg files together, interleaving pages in order of presentation time.
• oggzrip: Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file.

Library

liboggz supports the flexibility afforded by the Ogg file format while presenting the following API niceties:

• Full API documentation.
• Comprehensive test suite of read, write and seeking behavior.
• Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX, Win32 and Symbian OS. May work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf. For Win32: nmake Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and Visual C++ 6.0 workspace files are provided in the source distribution.
• BSD style license.
• Strict adherence to the formatting requirements of Ogg bitstreams, to ensure that only valid bitstreams are generated; writes can fail if you try to write illegally structured packets.
• A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close interface to raw Ogg files.
• Writing automatically interleaves with packet queuing, and provides callback based notification when this queue is empty
• A customisable seeking abstraction for seeking on multitrack Ogg data. Seeking works easily and reliably on multitrack and multi-codec streams, and can transparently parse Theora, Speex, Vorbis, FLAC and CMML headers without requiring linking to those libraries. This allows efficient use on servers and other devices that need to parse and seek within Ogg files, but do not need to do a full media decode.

For encoding and decoding Vorbis and Speex audio files, we recommend you use liboggz in conjunction with libfishsound.