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AUDIO CODEC
S
Non-compression formats
Audio Interchange File Format
(AIFF,
Container Format
)
Resource Interchange File Format
(RIFF, container format)
WAV
–
Microsoft
"WAVE" format (format supports compression, but it is rarely used)
Linear Pulse Code Modulation
(LPCM, generally only described as
PCM
, note that AIFF,
WAV
and
MLP
are all
Derivative
forms of LPCM)
Pulse-amplitude Modulation
(PAM)
Lossless Data Compression
Apple Lossless
Audio Codec (ALAC)
Direct Stream Transfer
(DST)
Dolby TrueHD
– Optional
Lossless
Surround Sound
format used by
HD DVD
and
Blu-ray
, it uses
MLP
but adds higher sample rates, bit rates, and more channels
DTS-HD Master Audio
– Optional
Lossless
Surround Sound
format used by
HD DVD
and
Blu-ray
, it was previously known as DTS++ and DTS-HD
Free Lossless Audio Codec
(FLAC)
Lossless Audio
(LA)
Lossless Predictive Audio Compression
(LPAC)
Lossless Transform Audio Compression
(LTAC)
MPEG-4
Audio Lossless Coding
(MPEG-4 ALS)
Meridian Lossless Packing
(MLP), also known as ''Packed PCM (PPCM)'', it is the standard lossless compression method for
DVD-Audio
content
Monkey's Audio
(APE)
OptimFROG
(OFR)
RealAudio
Lossless
RK Audio
(
RKAU
)
Shorten
(SHN)
True Audio
(TTA)
WavPack
(WV)
Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
Lossy Data Compression
General
(medium to high
Bit Rate
)
Adaptive Differential (or Delta) pulse-code modulation (ADPCM, see
Pulse-code Modulation
)
ADX
Adaptive Rate-Distortion Optimised sound codeR (
ARDOR
)
Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding
(ATRAC, used in
MiniDisc
devices)
Dolby Digital
(A/52, AC3)
DTS Coherent Acoustics
(DTS, Digital Theatre System Coherent Acoustics)
Impala
FORscene audio codec
MPEG audio
--- layer-1 (
MP1
)
--- layer-2 (
MP2
) (
MPEG
-1,
MPEG
-2 and non-ISO MPEG-2.5)
--- layer-3 (
MP3
) (
MPEG
-1,
MPEG
-2 and non-ISO MPEG-2.5)
---
Advanced Audio Coding
(AAC,
MPEG
-2 and
MPEG
-4)
--
HE-AAC
---
Harmonic And Individual Lines And Noise
(HILN, MPEG-4
Parametric Audio Coding
)
Musepack
Perceptual Audio Coding
QDesign
TwinVQ
Vorbis
Windows Media Audio
(WMA)
Voice
(low bit rate, optimized for speech)
Advanced Multi-Band Excitation
(AMBE)
Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction
(ACELP)
Code Excited Linear Prediction
(CELP)
Continuously Variable Slope Delta Modulation
(CVSD)
Digital Speech Standard
(DSS)
Enhanced Variable Rate Codec
(EVRC)
FS-1015
(LPC-10)
FS-1016
(CELP)
ITU standards:
---
G.711
(a-law and μ-law)
---
G.721
(superseded by G.726)
---
G.722
--
G.722.1
-- G.722.2 (
AMR-WB
)
---
G.723
(24 and 40 kbit/s DPCM, extension to G.721, superseded by G.726)
---
G.723.1
(MPC-MLQ or ACELP)
---
G.726
(ADPCM)
---
G.728
(LD-CELP)
---
G.729
(CS-ACELP)
--
G.729a
--
G.729.1
GSM
codecs:
---
Full Rate
---
Half Rate
---
Enhanced Full Rate
---
Adaptive Multi-Rate
(AMR)
--
AMR-WB
--
AMR-WB+
Harmonic Vector Excitation Coding
(HVXC)
Internet Low Bit Rate Codec
(iLBC)
Improved Multi-Band Excitation
(IMBE)
Internet Speech Audio Codec
(iSAC)
Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction
(MELP)
QCELP
Relaxed Code Excited Linear Prediction
(RCELP)
RTAudio
- used by
Microsoft_Live_Communication_Server
Selectable Mode Vocoder
(SMV)
Speex
, patent free
Triple Rate CODER
(TRC) - used in some pocket recorders.
Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction
(VSELP)
TEXT CODECS
Ogg Writ
VIDEO CODEC
S
Lossless Data Compression
CorePNG
H.264
(also known as
MPEG-4 AVC
or
MPEG-4 Part 10
) – High Profile supports lossless coding. Implemented by
X264
and
CoreAVC
codecs.
Huffyuv
Lagarith
LCL
MSU Lossless Video Codec
TSCC
TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
Lossy Data Compression
Audio Video Standard (AVS)
Blackbird
FORscene video codec
Cinepak
Dirac
Firebird
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Original FORscene video codec
H.261
H.263
MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile)
or
MPEG-4 Part 2
---
3ivx
---
Nero Digital
---
DivX
---
FFmpeg MPEG-4
---
Xvid
H.264
, also known as
MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding)
or
MPEG-4 Part 10
---
CoreAVC
---
HDX4
---
MainConcept
---
Nero Digital
---
QuickTime H.264 (MP4)
---
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 ASP
(Advanced Simple Profile)
MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding)
is practically the same as
H.264
Video
Pixlet
RealVideo
Snow
Wavelet Codec
Tarkin
Theora
VC-1
(the primary video codec used by
HD DVD
and
Blu-ray
)
Windows Media Video
(WMV)
---
Advanced Systems Format
(ASF, Part of the Windows Media Series)
--- WAX (Part of the Windows Media Series)
OTHER
Audio Video Interleave
(AVI) is not a codec, rather it is a
Container Format
, like
Matroska
, that many video codecs can use.
SEE ALSO
Open Source Codecs And Containers
Comparison Of Video Codecs
Comparison Of Audio Codecs
Comparison Of Container Formats
List Of Video Players (software)
Comparison Of Media Players
A blog about MP3 surround - MP3 Surround Samples
EXTERNAL LINKS
Subjective codec comparison
Audio formats comparison
, a look at six lossless formats and five lossy formats.
http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php, list of codec four digit codes (like DIV3, XVID, ...)
Interactive blind listening tests of audio codecs over the internet