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
- Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF, container format)
- Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF, container format)
- WAV – Microsoft "WAVE" format (format supports compression, but it is rarely used)
- Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM, note that AIFF, WAV and MLP are all derivative forms of LPCM)
- Pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM)
[edit] Lossless data compression
- Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC)
- Direct Stream Transfer (DST)
- Dolby TrueHD – Optional lossless surround sound format used by HD DVD and Blu-ray, it uses MLP but adds higher sample rates, bit rates, and more channels
- DTS-HD Master Audio – Optional lossless surround sound format used by HD DVD and Blu-ray, it was previously known as DTS++ and DTS-HD
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- Lossless Audio (LA)
- Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC)
- Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC)
- MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (MPEG-4 ALS)
- MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding - Scalable to lossless (AAC-SLS, also known as HD-AAC)
- Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP), also known as Packed PCM (PPCM), it is the standard lossless compression method for DVD-Audio content
- Monkey's Audio (APE)
- OptimFROG (OFR)
- RealAudio Lossless
- RK Audio (RKAU)
- Shorten (SHN)
- True Audio (TTA)
- WavPack (WV)
- Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless
[edit] Lossy data compression
[edit] General
(medium to high bit rate)
- Adaptive Differential (or Delta) pulse-code modulation (ADPCM, see Pulse-code modulation)
- ADX
- Adaptive Rate-Distortion Optimised sound codeR (ARDOR)
- Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC, used in MiniDisc devices)
- Dolby Digital (A/52, AC3)
- DTS Coherent Acoustics (DTS, Digital Theatre System Coherent Acoustics)
- Impala FORscene audio codec
- MPEG audio
- Musepack
- Perceptual Audio Coding
- QDesign
- TwinVQ
- Vorbis
- Windows Media Audio (WMA)
[edit] Voice
(low bit rate, optimized for speech)
- Advanced Multi-Band Excitation (AMBE)
- Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction (ACELP)
- Code Excited Linear Prediction (CELP)
- Continuously variable slope delta modulation (CVSD)
- Dialogic ADPCM (VOX)
- Digital Speech Standard (DSS)
- Enhanced Variable Rate Codec (EVRC)
- FS-1015 (LPC-10)
- FS-1016 (CELP)
- ITU standards:
- GSM codecs:
- Harmonic Vector Excitation Coding (HVXC)
- Internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC)
- Improved Multi-Band Excitation (IMBE)
- internet Speech Audio Codec (iSAC)
- Mixed Excitation Linear Prediction (MELP)
- QCELP
- Relaxed Code Excited Linear Prediction (RCELP)
- RTAudio - used by Microsoft Live Communication Server
- Selectable Mode Vocoder (SMV)
- Speex, patent free
- Triple Rate CODER (TRC) - used in some pocket recorders.
- Vector Sum Excited Linear Prediction (VSELP)
[edit] Text codecs
- Ogg Writ
[edit] Video codecs
[edit] Lossless data compression
- CorePNG
- Huffyuv
- Lagarith
- LCL
- MSU Lossless Video Codec
- SheerVideo
- TSCC TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
[edit] Lossy data compression
- Audio Video Standard (AVS)
- Blackbird FORscene video codec
- Cinepak
- Dirac
- Firebird[1] Original FORscene video codec
- H.261
- H.263
- MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile) or MPEG-4 Part 2
- H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) or MPEG-4 Part 10
- CoreAVC
- MainConcept
- Nero Digital
- QuickTime H.264 (MP4)
- Sorenson AVC Pro codec, Sorenson's new implementation
- Vanguard Software Solutions
- x264
- Indeo 3/4/5
- MJPEG
- JPEG 2000 intra frame video codec
- MPEG-1 Video
- MPEG-2 Video
- MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile)
- MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) is practically the same as H.264 Video
- On2 Technologies VP3, VP6, VP7, under the name The Duck Corporation: TrueMotion S
- Pixlet
- Apple ProRes 422
- RealVideo
- Snow Wavelet Codec
- Tarkin
- Theora
- TruDef high definition fractal video codec
- VC-1 (the primary video codec used by HD DVD and Blu-ray)
- Windows Media Video (WMV)
- WAX (Part of the Windows Media Series)
[edit] Other
Audio Video Interleave (AVI) is not a codec, rather it is a container format, like Matroska, that many video codecs can use.
[edit] See also
- Open source codecs and containers
- Comparison of video codecs
- Comparison of audio codecs
- Comparison of container formats
- Comparison of media players
[edit] External links
- 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, ...)
- Interactive blind listening tests of audio codecs over the internet
- http://www.pc-codecs.info
