Why Ogg Vorbis for games?
There are a several technical reasons that Ogg Vorbis makes a good choice for games without even getting into the patent licensing issue. • Vorbis has sample accurate seeking and playback. In MP3 the best you can do is get to the closest frame to the sample and start playback from there. This problem even persists into MPEG-4 audio and is the reason that Apple and others have had to build in hacks to get gapless playback. For sound effects, this is a major problem, and Vorbis solves it easily. • Vorbis encoded files are smaller and higher quality. Because the Vorbis codec is so much better than MP3, it is possible to achieve much smaller file sizes for the same quality as MP3, much higher quality for the same file size, or even a little better quality and a little better filesize. • Ogg is easily extensible to carry other formats. It has been used for video, MIDI, subtitles and many other things along side audio payloads. • The reference implementation is open, fast, and easy. The Xiph
