---
name: "oggz-rip"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "liboggz"
version: "1.1.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/oggz-rip"
---

# oggz-rip(1)

Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file.

## NAME

oggz-rip - Extract one or more logical bitstreams from an Ogg file.

## SYNOPSIS

**oggz-rip** \[-o *filename* \| --output *filename*\] *filename*

**oggz-rip** \[-h \| --help\] \[-v \| --version\]

## DESCRIPTION

**oggz-rip** extracts one or more tracks from an Ogg file.  In Ogg terminology, **oggz-rip** extracts one or more logical bitstreams.

For example, to extract just the Vorbis audio track from any Ogg file:

**oggz-rip -c vorbis input.ogx \> output.ogg**

This will remove any other tracks: Skeleton, Theora, image, etc. The output will be a valid Ogg Vorbis I file, suitable for use on  hardware players that do not support multiplexed (ie. multi-track)  Ogg files.

If the input file contains multiple bitstreams of the desired type, then they can be selected by serialno with the **-s** option. Use **oggz-info** to view the serialno of each track in a file.

## OPTIONS

**oggz-rip** accepts the following options:

### Miscellaneous options

- **-o, --output** *filename*

  Write output to the specified *filename* instead of printing it to standard output.

- **-h, --help**

  Display usage information and exit.

- **-v, --version**

  Output version information and exit.

### Filter options

These options can be used multiple times. Pages matching ANY of  the filter options will be included into the output.

- **-s, --serialno** *serialno*

  Output streams with given serialno.

- **-i, --stream-index** *index*

  Filter by stream index. These are assigned to streams in the order of their BOS pages, starting at 0.

- **-c, --content-type** *content-type*

  Filter by content-type.  Run [**oggz-known-codecs**(1)](/oggz-known-codecs/1.md) for a full list of codecs known by the installed version of oggz.

## EXAMPLES

Extract all bitstreams from file.ogg:

`oggz rip -o output.ogg file.ogg`

Extract only the Theora bitstream from file.ogv:

`oggz rip -c theora -o output.ogv file.ogv`

## AUTHOR

David Kuehling        January  1, 2005;

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2005 CSIRO Australia

## SEE ALSO

[**oggz-merge**(1)](/oggz-merge/1.md), [**oggz-chop**(1)](/oggz-chop/1.md), [**oggz-dump**(1)](/oggz-dump/1.md), [**oggz-diff**(1)](/oggz-diff/1.md), **hogg**(1)