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VIDEO CODECS

  • X264 - H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) implementation.

  • Xvid - MPEG-4 part 2 codec, compatible with DivX .

  • FFmpeg codecs - codecs in the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project (FFV1, Snow , MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2, MSMPEG-4, H.264, WMV2, SVQ3, MJPEG, HuffYUV, Indeo and others).

  • Tarkin - an experimental lossy video codec under development by the Xiph.org Foundation based on 3-D wavelet compression

  • Lagarith - lossless video codec

  • Theora - Based on VP3 , part of the Ogg Project.

  • Dirac - Wavelet based codec created by the BBC .

  • Huffyuv - Lossless codec from BenRG.

  • OpenAVS



AUDIO CODEC S

  • FLAC - Lossless compression.

  • ILBC - Low bitrate voice compression.

  • LAME - Lossy compression (MP3 format).

  • Musepack - Lossy compression; an attempt to replicate the MP2 format.

  • Speex - Low bitrate compression, primarily voice.

  • TTA - Lossless compression

  • Vorbis - Lossy compression; developed by Xiph.org.

  • WavPack - Hybrid lossy/lossless

  • OpenAVS

    • See also Advanced Audio Coding for open-source implementations of the AAC codec.



TEXT CODECS

(generally used for subtitles/closed captioning)


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