The following is a list of codecs.

Audio codecs

Non-compression formats

• AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
• Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF)
  • WAV - Microsoft "wave" format (format supports compression, but it is rarely used)

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

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  • G.721 (Superseded by G.726)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
  • 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  • G.723 (Superseded by G.726)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

Text codecs

• Ogg Writ

Video codecs

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is not a codec, rather it is a container format that many of these codecs can use.

Lossless data compression

• CorePNG
• H.264 High Profile supports lossless coding. Implemented by x264
• Huffyuv
• Lagarith
• LCL
• MSU Lossless Video Codec
• TSCC TechSmith Screen Capture Codec

Lossy data compression

• Audio Video Standard (AVS)
• Blackbird FORscene video codec
• Cinepak
• Dirac
• Firebird^* Original FORscene video codec
• H.261
• H.263
• H.263v2
• H.264, also known as MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC)
  • 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
  • 3ivx
  • DivX
  • XviD
• 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)

External links

• Subjective codec comparison
• Audio formats comparison, a look at six lossless formats and five lossy formats.

Codecs | Technology-related lists

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