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How the two formats differ on the things that change your result.
| Specification | OGV (source) | ALAC (result) |
|---|---|---|
| Container | Ogg | MPEG-4 (.m4a) |
| Developed by | Xiph.Org Foundation | Apple |
| Introduced | 2008 | 2004 |
| Audio codecs | Vorbis | ALAC |
| Compression | Lossy | Lossless (compressed) |
| Approx. file size | 7.5–45 MB per minute | 5–7 MB per minute |
| Metadata / tags | Container tags | MPEG-4 iTunes-style atoms |
| Licensing | Royalty-free | Royalty-free |
| Plays natively on | Needs a player: Windows, macOS, Web browsers, Android | Native: macOS, iOS · Needs a player: Windows, Android, Web browsers, Smart TVs |
| Best for | open-source projects, web archives | long-term archiving, the Apple ecosystem, audiophile listening |
This extracts the audio and discards the video entirely. The soundtrack inside a OGV file is typically Vorbis, and it is re-encoded to ALAC on the way out.
Expect a much smaller file. Video accounts for most of the bytes, so about 26 MB per minute becomes roughly 6 MB per minute of ALAC.
Choosing lossless ALAC means nothing further is lost, though it cannot exceed the Vorbis track stored in the source video.
Subtitles do not survive audio extraction, since an audio container has nowhere to store them.
When a video holds several audio tracks, the main one is extracted; alternate language tracks are not merged into the result.
Extracting ALAC audio from a OGV video pulls the soundtrack out of the Ogg container and writes it as a standalone MPEG-4 (.m4a) file. The video stream, which holds most of the data, is discarded.
Developed by Xiph.Org Foundation in 2008, OGV carries Theora video and Vorbis audio. That combination sets the upper bound on what any conversion can preserve.
ALAC was introduced by Apple in 2004. It holds losslessly compressed audio (ALAC) and plays natively on macOS and iOS.
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