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# Ogg Vorbis Documentation

Last documentation revision: July 16, 2002

## Vorbis technical discussion documents

- Fidelity measurement terminology
- Vorbis channel coupling and stereo-specific application

## Ogg Vorbis I specification documents

- Vorbis specification introduction and description
- Vorbis bitpacking convention
- Vorbis probability model and codebooks
- Vorbis codec setup and packet decode
- Vorbis comment header specification
- Vorbis floor type 0 setup and decode
- Vorbis floor type 1 setup and decode
- Vorbis residue types 0, 1 and 2 setup and decode
- Embedding Vorbis encoded audio in an Ogg bitstream
- Embedding Vorbis encoded audio in an RTP payload format

## Ogg Vorbis programming documents

- Programming with libvorbis
- Programming with vorbisfile
- Programming with vorbisenc

## Ogg bitstream documentation

- Ogg bitstream overview
- Ogg logical bitstream and framing spec

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