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AUDIO CODEC S

Non-compression formats

AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format

Resource Interchange File Format ( RIFF )

--- WAV - Microsoft "wave" format (format supports compression, but it is rarely used)

Lossless Data Compression

Apple Lossless

Audio Lossless Coding ( MPEG-4 ALS)

Direct Stream Transfer (DST)

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

LA ( Lossless Audio )

Lossless Predictive Audio Compression

Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC)

Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)

Monkey's Audio (APE)

OptimFROG

RealAudio Loseless

RKAU ( RK Audio )

Shorten (SHN)

True Audio Free Lossless Codec (TTA)

WavPack

Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless

Lossy Data Compression

General (medium to high Bit Rate )

--- ADPCM

--- AAC Advanced Audio Coding ( MPEG -2 and MPEG -4)

--- ADX

--- ARDOR (Adaptive Rate-Distortion Optimised sound codeR)

--- ATRAC Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (Used in MiniDisc devices)

--- Dolby Digital (A/52, AC3)

--- DTS (DTS Coherent Acoustics)

--- FORtune {Link without Title}

--- MP1 (MPEG audio layer-1)

--- MP2 (MPEG audio layer-2) Layer 2 audio codec ( MPEG -1, MPEG -2 and non-ISO MPEG-2.5)

--- MP3 (MPEG audio layer-3) Layer 3 audio codec ( MPEG -1, MPEG -2 and non-ISO MPEG-2.5)

--- Musepack

--- Perceptual Audio Coding

--- QDesign

--- TwinVQ

--- Vorbis

--- WMA (Windows Media Audio)

Voice (low bit rate, optimized for speech)

--- AMR

--- AMBE

--- CELP

--- DSS

--- EVRC

--- FS-1015 (LPC-10)

--- FS-1016 (CELP)

--- G.711 (a-law and mu-law/u-law)

--- G.722.1

--- G.722

--- G.723.1

--- G.723 (Superseded by G.726)

--- G.726 (ADPCM)

--- G.728 (LD-CELP)

--- G.729 (CS-ACELP)

--- G.729a

--- GSM

--- HILN (MPEG-4 Parametric Audio Coding )

--- ILBC

--- IMBE

--- ISAC

--- QCELP

--- SMV

--- Speex , patent free

--- VSELP

TEXT CODECS

Ogg Writ

VIDEO CODEC S

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is not a codec, rather it is a Container Format that many of these codecs can use.

Lossless Data Compression

CorePNG

H.264 High Profile supports lossless coding. Implemented by X264

Huffyuv

Lagarith

LCL

MSU Lossless Video Codec

TSCC TechSmith Screen Capture Codec

Lossy Data Compression

Audio Video Standard (AVS)

Cinepak

Dirac

FORlive {Link without Title}

H.261

H.263

H.263v2

H.264 , also known as MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC)

--- MainConcept

--- Nero Digital

--- QuickTime H.264

--- Sorenson AVC Pro Codec , Sorenson 's new implementation

--- Vanguard Software Solutions

--- X264

Indeo 3/4/5

KVCD

MJPEG

MPEG-1 Video

MPEG-2 Video

MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile Video

--- 3ivx

--- DivX

--- XviD

MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding is the same as H.264

On2 Technologies VP3 , VP6 , VP7

Pixlet

RealVideo

Tarkin

Theora

VC-1

Windows Media Video

--- ASF (Part of the Windows Media Series)

---WAX (Part of the Windows Media Series)

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