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

[edit] Lossy data compression

[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

[edit] Lossy data compression

[edit] External links

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