ogginfo(1)

✨ ogginfo — the vibe check for your Ogg files ✨

okay bestie, so this is ogginfo(1), part of the Vorbis Tools fam 💖 it gives you the tea on your Ogg files and does extensive validity checking, like it will literally read your file to filth (but politely, and it won't fix anything, it just tells you).

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ogginfo [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -h ] file1.ogg ... fileN.ogg

like, one file, forty files, whatever, she's not gonna complain 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

ogginfo reads one or more Ogg files and prints the info about what's inside the streams — including chained and/or multiplexed streams, yes she does all of that — straight to standard output. It will detect a wide range of common defects (but not correct them, she's an informant, not a surgeon 💀), plus it's got a bunch of extra checks that are specifically for Ogg Vorbis streams.

For all stream types, ogginfo will print:

• the filename being processed
• the stream serial numbers
• various common error conditions

For Vorbis streams, you get the good stuff printed out:

• the version used for encoding
• the sample rate
• the number of channels
• the bitrate
• the playback length
• the contents of the comment header

Similarly, for Theora streams, you get the basic info about the video:

• frame rate
• aspect ratio
• bitrate
• length
• the comment header

it's giving thorough. it's giving main character energy. periodt. 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — shows a help and usage message. if you're lost, bestie, she'll point you home 🧭
• -q — Quiet mode. and the way that you can specify this multiple times?? 😌 stack them up: once will remove the detailed informative messages, twice will remove warnings as well. the more -q you add, the more she stops talking. silent queen behaviour.
• -v — Verbose mode. at the current time, this does not do anything. yeah. it's decorative. it's an accessory. it's a vibe only, no cap 🙈

lowkey important: -q and -v are listed as separate flags and neither of them gets merged or renamed. leave them exactly like that.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Michael Smith <msmith@xiph.org>

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• vorbiscomment(1)
• ogg123(1)
• oggdec(1)
• oggenc(1)

💖 a lil sign-off 💖

and that's the whole page, bestie!! brought to you by the Xiph.Org Foundation, dated July 10, 2002 — yes she's an elder but she still ate and left no crumbs, fr fr 🌈⭐💜

now go run it on your files and tell me what the serial numbers said 💅