OGV to OGG Converter

Extract OGG Audio from OGV Online

Both .ogv and .ogg are Xiph.Org's open Ogg format — .ogv is the video profile (Theora picture plus a Vorbis soundtrack), .ogg is the audio profile reserved for Vorbis. So this is the most natural extraction in the whole Ogg world: it pulls the Vorbis audio track out of the video container and writes it into the audio container Xiph keeps specifically for Vorbis. The video is discarded; you keep just the sound. Because the audio is re-encoded rather than stream-copied, the one rule that matters is to match the source bitrate so you don't add audible loss.

How to Convert OGV to OGG

1. Upload Your OGV File: Drag and drop your .ogv onto the page, or click "Add Files" to browse. Wikimedia Commons downloads, Linux screen recordings, and old HTML5 <video> files all work, and you can queue several to extract with the same settings.
2. Pick a Quality Preset: Leave Quality Preset on its recommended setting, or open the Preset dropdown (Highest down to Lowest) to trade file size against fidelity. The Audio Codec stays on Vorbis — the codec the .ogg extension is meant for.
3. Set the Bitrate (Optional): Under File Compression, switch to Variable Bitrate, Custom Bitrate, Constant Bitrate, or Specific file size to control the result. You can also downmix with Audio Channel, change Audio Sample Rate, or Trim to keep only part of the clip.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert and save your .ogg file individually or as a ZIP. The picture is gone; you keep only the Vorbis audio. No sign-up, no watermark.

OGV vs OGG — Two Profiles of One Ogg Family

The audio in an OGV is almost always Vorbis, and the .ogg extension is the one Xiph.Org reserves for Vorbis — so extracting from .ogv to .ogg lands the soundtrack in exactly the right container. (Xiph uses .oga for non-Vorbis Ogg audio like FLAC or Speex; standard Vorbis stays .ogg.) If you want the audio to play on a wider range of hardware, extract to MP3 instead; if you'd rather keep a watchable picture, convert OGV to MP4.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does converting OGV to OGG just copy the audio, or re-encode it?

It re-encodes. The tool decodes the Vorbis soundtrack from the Ogg video and writes a fresh Vorbis stream into the .ogg — that is why you get bitrate, quality, channel, and sample-rate controls rather than a plain stream-copy. Vorbis-to-Vorbis is a second lossy generation, so detail the original encode discarded stays gone and the re-encode can shed a little more. The fix is simple: match or modestly exceed the source bitrate (a 160 kbps Vorbis track re-encoded at 160 kbps stays close). Keep the original OGV if you might need full fidelity later — lossy re-encoding is not reversible.

Why is .ogg the right extension for the audio I pull out of an .ogv?

Because Xiph.Org reserves .ogg specifically for Vorbis audio. Since 2007, and formalized in RFC 5334, Xiph asks that .ogg apply to Vorbis I files only — it was kept that way for backward compatibility with hardware players that expected Vorbis. Non-Vorbis Ogg audio (Ogg FLAC, Speex) is meant to use .oga, while .ogv is the video profile. Since an OGV's soundtrack is almost always Vorbis, writing it to .ogg follows Xiph's own convention — you are moving the audio to the container built for it, all inside the same open family.

Will the OGG keep the video from my OGV?

No. This is an audio extraction: the Theora video track is discarded and you get an audio-only .ogg file. In our testing, a 3-minute Vorbis OGV re-encoded to a 160 kbps Vorbis OGG produced a file in the low single-digit megabytes — a fraction of the video's size, since the picture is dropped entirely. If you'd rather keep a playable picture alongside the sound, convert OGV to MP4 instead — that keeps the video in a widely supported container rather than throwing it away.

My OGV won't even open in Chrome anymore — does extracting still work?

Yes. Google removed Theora — the video codec most OGV files use — from Chromium in Chrome 123 (announced October 2023; disabled by default in Chrome 120 that December), and Firefox disabled it by default in Firefox 126, so an .ogv may no longer play directly in a browser. That removal only affects the Theora video; standalone decoders in tools like VLC and FFmpeg still read the file, which is how xconvert decodes your source and re-encodes the Vorbis audio into an .ogg. The resulting file is plain Vorbis and does not depend on any Theora support to play.

How are my files handled, and how long are they kept?

Your OGV is uploaded over an encrypted connection, the audio is extracted to OGG on our servers, and the files are deleted automatically a few hours after conversion. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and your files are never shared or made public. On a big batch the practical limit is upload time, not a per-file size cap.