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Revision as of 17:52, 26 May 2005 by 80.58.48.42 (talk) (→[]: added patent free comment for Speex audio codec)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The following is a list of codecs.
Audio codecs
Lossless data compression
- APE Monkey's Audio
- Apple Lossless
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- LA (Lossless Audio)
- Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC)
- Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC)
- OptimFROG
- RealAudio Loseless
- RKAU (RK Aduio)
- Shorten (SHN)
- True Audio free lossless codec (TTA)
- WavPack
- Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
Lossy data compression
- General (medium to high bit rate)
- A/52 or AC-3 AC-3 or Dolby Digital A/52
- ADPCM
- AAC Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4)
- ATRAC Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (Used in MiniDisc devices)
- DTS Coherent Acoustics
- DTS (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
- 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
- TwinVQ
- Vorbis
- WMA (Windows Media Audio)
- Voice (low bit rate, optimized for speech)
- Others
- Perceptual Audio Coding, used for satellite radio and IBOC digital radio