OGV to OGG Converter

OGV vs OGG — Two Profiles of the Same Ogg Family

This is not really a format conversion; it is a profile change inside one family. Xiph.Org uses a single container, Ogg, and assigns different extensions to different payload profiles: RFC 5334 makes .ogv the video/ogg profile and .ogg an audio/ogg profile, and Xiph's own extension guidance narrows .ogg further to "Ogg Vorbis I Profile" only — kept that way, in Xiph's words, because .ogg has traditionally been used for Vorbis I files, in particular in hardware players.

So the short answer: .ogv is a video file with a soundtrack, .ogg is the Vorbis-only audio profile, and this page discards the picture and keeps the sound. Because that soundtrack is almost always Vorbis already, .ogg is the correct destination — provided you leave the codec on Vorbis. Pick Opus, FLAC or Speex instead and you have made a file that contradicts Xiph's own extension convention; the section below covers what to do instead.

Side-by-side Comparison

Note the asymmetry in the second-to-last row, because it is the reason this conversion is genuinely useful rather than merely tidy: browsers dropped the Theora video codec, not Ogg or Vorbis. Pulling the soundtrack out of a .ogv produces a file that current browsers still play natively, from a source they no longer will.

Which Codec Belongs in an .ogg?

The Audio Codec dropdown offers four choices, and only one of them matches what the extension is reserved for.

If you need the audio to play on the widest possible range of devices rather than the most open ones, leave the Ogg family entirely: OGV to MP3 is the answer for car stereos, old phones and anything that predates Vorbis support.

How to Convert OGV to OGG

1. Upload Your OGV File: Drag the .ogv onto the page or click "Add Files" to browse. Wikimedia Commons downloads, Linux screen recordings and old HTML5 <video> files all work, and several can be queued at once.
2. Leave Audio Codec on Vorbis and Pick a Quality Preset: Vorbis is pre-selected and is the right choice for .ogg. Unlike the video pages, the Preset dropdown here has no pre-selected value in the page's option data — choose one explicitly. "Very High" carries the "(Recommended)" label; if nothing is sent the server falls back to its middle tier.
3. Set the Bitrate, Channels, Sample Rate or Trim (Optional): File Compression also offers Variable Bitrate, Constant Bitrate, Custom Bitrate and Specific file size. Audio Channel can downmix to Mono or force Stereo, Audio Sample Rate offers Original, 44100 Hz or 48000 Hz, and Trim's Duration field is pre-filled at 10 seconds if you switch it on.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert and save the .ogg. The picture is gone; you keep only the audio. No sign-up, no watermark.

What Each Compression Mode Actually Does

• Quality Preset hands libvorbis a -q:a value rather than a bitrate, which is why it usually gives the best size-for-quality result. Our pipeline maps the seven presets across Vorbis's full -1 to 10 quality scale: Highest becomes q10, Very High q8, High q6, Medium q4, Low q2, Very Low q1 and Lowest q-1. Higher is better on this scale, the opposite of a video CRF.
• Variable Bitrate and Constant Bitrate are dropdowns of fixed rungs; Constant Bitrate runs from 8 kbps up to 384 kbps and opens at 128 kbps.
• Custom Bitrate takes any number you type, also opening at 128 kbps. It is clamped into the range libvorbis will accept, and at low sample rates it is clamped further — Vorbis cannot reach high bitrates at 22 kHz, so if the source is a low-rate recording and you leave Audio Sample Rate on "Original", a large bitrate request will be reduced.
• Specific file size works backwards from a target size to a bitrate. It opens at 8 MB.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this a stream copy, or does the audio get re-encoded?

It is re-encoded. Our server decodes the Vorbis soundtrack out of the Ogg video and writes a fresh Vorbis stream into the .ogg — there is no stream-copy path anywhere in the pipeline, which is why you get quality, bitrate, channel and sample-rate controls at all. Vorbis-to-Vorbis is a second lossy generation, so the practical advice is to pick a quality setting at or slightly above what the source used rather than dropping it.

Why is .ogg the right extension for audio pulled out of a .ogv?

Because Xiph reserves it for exactly this payload. Their MIME and file-extension guidance defines .ogg as the "Ogg Vorbis I Profile" and states it is kept that way for backwards compatibility with hardware players that expect Vorbis. Since a .ogv soundtrack is almost always Vorbis, writing it to .ogg follows Xiph's own convention. Non-Vorbis Ogg audio is supposed to use .oga, and video uses .ogv.

Will the OGG still have the video in it?

No. This is an audio extraction — the Theora video track is dropped and you get an audio-only file. That is also why the output is dramatically smaller than the source: in a typical .ogv the picture accounts for the overwhelming majority of the bytes. If you want to keep a watchable picture instead, OGV to MP4 re-encodes the whole clip into a widely supported container.

What quality preset should I choose?

Work from what the source is. A web-video soundtrack is usually somewhere around Vorbis q4 to q6, so "Medium" or "High" reproduces it without inflating the file. Choose "Very High" (q8) if the audio is music you care about and you would rather spend the bytes; "Highest" (q10) is close to the top of the Vorbis scale and produces a large file for a gain you are unlikely to hear on already-lossy source material.

My .ogv won't play in Chrome any more — can you still extract from it?

Yes, and the resulting file will play where the source no longer does. caniuse records Chrome disabling Theora by default from version 120 and removing it in 123, Edge from 122, Opera from 106, and Firefox disabling it by default in version 126; Safari never supported it. What was withdrawn is the Theora video decoder — Ogg and Vorbis themselves were untouched, so the .ogg you get back plays natively in current browsers. Server-side decoders in FFmpeg and VLC still read Theora, which is how your source is opened here.

Can I get Opus or FLAC in the .ogg file?

The dropdown will let you, but you should not want to. .ogg means Vorbis to a great deal of older software and hardware, so an Opus or FLAC stream under that name can be refused by exactly the players the extension exists to satisfy. Xiph's guidance points Opus at .opus and other Ogg audio at .oga. Use OGV to Opus or OGV to OGA and the file will be correctly labelled.

How do I extract only part of the soundtrack?

Two routes. Inside this page, switch Trim from "Unchanged" to Trim and set a start time and duration — but note the Duration field is pre-filled with 10 seconds, so change it or you will get a ten-second clip. Alternatively, trim the video first with Video Cutter, which accepts .ogv, then convert the shorter clip. Once you have the .ogg, Audio Cutter can trim it further.

Should I change the sample rate or downmix to mono?

Only with a reason. Leaving Audio Sample Rate on "Original" avoids a resample, which is one more processing step on already-lossy audio. Mono is worth choosing for spoken-word recordings — it roughly halves the data with no perceptual loss on a voice — but it permanently discards the stereo image, so do not use it on music. Note that Vorbis's usable bitrate ceiling scales with the sample rate and channel count, so a mono file at a low sample rate cannot be pushed to a high bitrate no matter what you request.

What happens to my file after the conversion?

Your .ogv is uploaded over an encrypted connection, the soundtrack is decoded and re-encoded on our servers, and both the upload and the finished .ogg are deleted automatically after a few hours. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and files are never shared or made public.