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Main article: Audio codec
Lossless
- APE Monkey's Audio
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- Shorten (SHN)
- LA (Lossless Audio)
- True Audio free lossless codec (TTA)
- Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC)
- Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC)
- Apple Lossless
- OptimFROG
- WavePack
- Windows Media Audio 9 Series Professional Lossless
Lossy
- ?
- WMA Windows Media Audio
- DTS DTS Coherent Acoustics
- Perceptual Audio Coding, used for satellite radio and IBOC digital radio
- General (medium to high bit rate)
- 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)
- AAC Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4)
- DTS Coherent Acoustics
- A/52 or AC-3 AC-3 or Dolby Digital A/52
- TwinVQ
- Vorbis
- Musepack
- ATRAC Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (Used in MiniDisc devices)
- Windows Media Audio 9 Series
- ADPCM
- Perceptual Audio Coding
- Voice (low bit rate, optimized for speech)
Text codecs
Video codecs
Main article: Video codec