List of codecs
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The following is a list of codecs.
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[edit] Audio codecs
[edit] Non-compression formats
- AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
- RIFF - Resource Interchange File Format
- WAV - Microsoft "wave" format (format supports compression, but it is rarely used)
[edit] Lossless data compression
- Apple Lossless
- Audio Lossless Coding (MPEG-4 ALS)
- Direct Stream Transfer (DST)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- LA (Lossless Audio)
- Lossless Predictive Audio Compression
- Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC)
- Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)
- Monkey's Audio (APE)
- OptimFROG
- RealAudio Lossless
- RKAU (RK Audio)
- Shorten (SHN)
- True Audio (TTA)
- WavPack
- Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
[edit] Lossy data compression
- General (medium to high bit rate)
- ADPCM
- AAC Advanced Audio Coding (MPEG-2 and MPEG-4)
- AAC+
- ADX
- ARDOR (Adaptive Rate-Distortion Optimised sound codeR)
- ATRAC Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (Used in MiniDisc devices)
- Dolby Digital (A/52, AC3)
- DTS (DTS Coherent Acoustics)
- Impala FORscene audio codec
- 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)
- HILN (MPEG-4 Parametric audio coding)
- Musepack
- Perceptual Audio Coding
- QDesign
- TwinVQ
- Vorbis
- WMA (Windows Media Audio)
- Voice (low bit rate, optimized for speech)
- AMR
- AMR-WB
- AMR-WB+
- AMBE
- CELP
- DSS
- EVRC
- FS-1015 (LPC-10)
- FS-1016 (CELP)
- G.711 (a-law and mu-law/u-law)
- G.721 (Superseded by G.726)
- G.722.1
- G.722.2
- G.722
- G.723.1
- G.723 (Superseded by G.726)
- G.726 (ADPCM)
- G.728 (LD-CELP)
- G.729 (CS-ACELP)
- G.729a
- G.729.1
- GSM Enhanced Full Rate
- GSM Full Rate
- GSM Half Rate
- iLBC
- IMBE
- iSAC
- QCELP
- Relaxed Code Excited Linear Prediction (RCELP)
- SMV
- Speex, patent free
- VSELP
[edit] Text codecs
[edit] Video codecs
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is not a codec, rather it is a container format that many of these codecs can use.
[edit] Lossless data compression
- CorePNG
- H.264 High Profile supports lossless coding. Implemented by x264
- Huffyuv
- Lagarith
- LCL
- MSU Lossless Video Codec
- MSU Screen Capture Lossless Codec
- TSCC TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
[edit] Lossy data compression
- Audio Video Standard (AVS)
- Blackbird FORscene video codec
- Cinepak
- Dirac_(codec)
- Firebird[1] Original FORscene video codec
- H.261
- H.263
- H.263v2
- H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC)
- HDX4
- MainConcept
- Nero Digital
- QuickTime H.264
- 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 Advanced Simple Profile Video
- MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding is the same as H.264
- On2 Technologies VP3, VP6, VP7
- Pixlet
- RealVideo
- Snow Wavelet Codec
- Tarkin
- Theora
- VC-1
- Windows Media Video
- ASF (Part of the Windows Media Series)
- WAX (Part of the Windows Media Series)
[edit] External links
- Comparisons of H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and lossless codecs
- 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, ...)
