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Revision as of 09:21, 27 May 2005 by Berrinam (talk | contribs) (Separated video into lossy and lossless; fixed up Sorenson's double listing)(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
Text codecs
Video codecs
Lossless Data Compression
- H.264 High Profile supports lossless coding. As of yet, no public implementation
- Huffyuv
- Lagarith
- Tscc TechSmith Camtasia losslesscoder
Lossy data compression
- Audio Video Standard (AVS)
- Cinepak
- H.261
- H.263
- H.263v2
- H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC
- x264
- Nero Digital
- Sorenson AVC Pro codec, Sorenson's new implementation
- Indeo 3/4/5
- KVCD
- MJPEG
- MPEG-1 Video
- MPEG-2 Video
- MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile Video
- MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding is the same as H.264
- Ogg Tarkin
- On2 VP3, VP6
- Pixlet
- RealVideo
- VC-1
- Theora
- Windows Media Video
- ASF (Part of the Windows Media Series)