List of codecs - Definition and Overview
Contents
1 Audio codecs
1.1 Lossless data compression
1.2 Lossy data compression
2 Text codecs
3 Video codecs
Audio codecs
Lossless data compression
APE
Monkey's Audio
Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Shorten (SHN)
LA (
Lossless Audio
)
True Audio free lossless codec (TTA)
Lossless Predictive Audio Compression (LPAC)
Lossless Transform Audio Compression (LTAC)
Apple Lossless
OptimFROG
WavePack
Windows Media Audio 9 Series Professional Lossless
Lossy data compression
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WMA
Windows Media Audio
DTS
DTS Coherent Acoustics
Perceptual Audio Coding
, used for
satellite radio
and
IBOC
digital radio
General (medium to high
bit rate
)
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)
AAC
Advanced Audio Coding (
MPEG
-2 and
MPEG
-4)
DTS Coherent Acoustics
A/52 or AC-3
AC-3 or Dolby Digital A/52
TwinVQ
Vorbis
Musepack
ATRAC
Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding (Used in
MiniDisc
devices)
Windows Media Audio 9 Series
ADPCM
Perceptual Audio Coding
Voice
(low bit rate, optimized for speech)
Speex
GSM
G.711
G.723.1
G.729
HILN
(MPEG-4 Parametric audio coding)
Windows Media Audio 9 Series Voice
Text codecs
Ogg Writ
Video codecs
Audio Video Standard (AVS)
Theora
Ogg Tarkin
H.261
H.263
H.263v2
H.264
Huffyuv
MPEG-1
Video
MPEG-2
Video
MPEG-4
Video
DivX
Xvid
3ivx
Sorenson
Cinepak
Indeo 3/4/5
MJPEG
On2
VP3
,
VP6
Windows Media Video 9 Series
ASF
(Part of the Windows Media Series)
Pixlet
KVCD
VC-1
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