• A codec is a computer hardware or software component that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic...
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  • Look up codec in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Codec may mean: An audio codec converts between analog and digital representations or performs data compression...
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    LDAC (Lossless Digital Audio Codec) is a proprietary audio coding technology developed by Sony, which allows streaming lossy audio over Bluetooth connections...
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  • Audio Codec (ALAC, /əˈlæk/), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation...
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  • Codec 2 is a low-bitrate speech audio codec (speech coding) that is patent free and open source. Codec 2 compresses speech using sinusoidal coding, a method...
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  • A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video. In the context of video compression, codec is a portmanteau of encoder...
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  • An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software...
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  • The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs for Microsoft Windows DirectShow that enables an operating system and its software to play...
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  • The following is a list of compression formats and related codecs. Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for...
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  • UHDTV post-production codec engineered for multi-generation compositing with reduced storage and bandwidth requirements. The codec was specifically developed...
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    DivX (redirect from Divx codec)
    video codec products developed by DivX, LLC. There are three DivX codecs: the original MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec, the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC DivX Plus HD codec and...
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    Xvid (redirect from Xvid codec)
    Xvid (formerly "XviD") is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 video coding standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP)....
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    reduced down to 5 ms. Its delay is exceptionally low compared to competing codecs, which require well over 100 ms, yet Opus performs very competitively with...
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  • LC3 (Low Complexity Communication Codec) is an audio codec specified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for the LE Audio audio protocol introduced...
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    FLAC (/flæk/; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and...
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  • SBC, or low-complexity subband codec, is an audio subband codec specified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Advanced Audio Distribution...
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  • Α video codec is software or a device that provides encoding and decoding for digital video, and which may or may not include the use of video compression...
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  • A POTS codec is a type of audio coder-decoder (codec) that uses digital signal processing to transmit audio digitally over standard telephone lines (plain...
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    Ogg (redirect from Tarkin (codec))
    without sound (including Theora), and .ogx for multiplexed Ogg. Ogg's various codecs have been incorporated into a number of different free and proprietary media...
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  • Low Latency High-Definition Audio Codec (LHDC) is an audio codec technology developed by Savitech. LHDC allows high-resolution audio streaming over Bluetooth...
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  • AMR-NB or GSM-AMR) audio codec is an audio compression format optimized for speech coding. AMR is a multi-rate narrowband speech codec that encodes narrowband...
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  • Lyra is a lossy audio codec developed by Google that is designed for compressing speech at very low bitrates. Unlike most other audio formats, it compresses...
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  • Theora (redirect from Theora codec)
    including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container. The libtheora video codec is the reference implementation of the Theora video compression format developed...
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  • Asao (also known as Nellymoser audio codec) is a proprietary single-channel (mono) codec and compression format optimized for low-bitrate transmission...
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  • audio codec implementations developed and licensed by PictureTel Corporation (acquired by Polycom, Inc. in 2001). There are three Siren codecs: Siren...
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  • of which has been Vorbis, an open and freely licensed audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented WMA, MP3 and AAC. As of 2013, development...
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  • codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats, audio codecs and video codecs respectively. Many of the codecs...
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  • 16-bit stereo PCM). Shorten is no longer developed and other lossless audio codecs such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio (APE), TTA, and WavPack (WV) have become more...
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  • The TICO codec, an abbreviation for "Tiny Codec," is a video compression technology created to facilitate the transmission of high-resolution video over...
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  • IP codecs are used to send video or audio signals over an IP network such as the Internet. The initials "IP" here stand for "Internet Protocol", while...
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