The ogg::vorbis perl module, an object-oriented interface to the libvorbisfile ogg vorbis library. currently reading but not writing of streams is supported.

ogg vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format for high quality (44.1-48.0khz, 16+ bit, polyphonic) audio and music at fixed and variable bitrates from 16 to 128 kbps/channel. this places vorbis in the same class as audio representations including mpeg-1 audio layer 3, mpeg-4 audio (aac and twinvq), and pac.