Open source codecs and containers

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This is a listing of open-source multimedia codecs and container formats. That doesn't necessarily mean that further restrictions (such as software patents) don't exist for these codecs and formats, which is the case for many of them, like MP3. Note that codec is software, not a format — for example, video produced with the Xvid and FFmpeg MPEG-4 codecs is MPEG-4 ASP video.

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[edit] Containers

[edit] Video codecs

  • x264 - H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) implementation. x264 is not a codec, it is just an encoder.
  • Xvid - MPEG-4 part 2 codec, compatible with DivX.
  • FFmpeg codecs - codecs in the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project (FFV1, Snow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2, MSMPEG-4, H.264, WMV2, SVQ3, MJPEG, HuffYUV, Indeo and others).
  • Tarkin - an experimental lossy video codec under development by the Xiph.org Foundation based on 3-D wavelet compression
  • Lagarith - lossless video codec
  • Theora - Based on VP3, part of the Ogg Project.
  • Dirac - Wavelet based codec created by the BBC.
  • Huffyuv - Lossless codec from BenRG.
  • OpenAVS

[edit] Audio codecs

  • FLAC - Lossless compression.
  • iLBC - Low bitrate voice compression.
  • LAME - Lossy compression (MP3 format).
  • Musepack - Lossy compression; based on MP2 format, with many improvements.
  • Speex - Low bitrate compression, primarily voice; developed by Xiph.org.
  • TTA - Lossless compression
  • Vorbis - Lossy compression; developed by Xiph.org.
  • WavPack - Hybrid lossy/lossless
  • OpenAVS
  • FFmpeg WMA - Reverse engineered WMA Standard codec
  • FAAC and FAAD2 - open-source implementation of Advanced Audio Coding

[edit] Text Codecs

(generally used for subtitles/closed captioning)

[edit] See also

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