An audio codec, or audio decoder is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes...

other codecs. Unlike Vorbis, Opus does not require large codebooks for each individual file, making it more efficient for short clips of audio and more...

Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation...

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...

FLAC (/flæk/; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and...

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology...

formats and related codecs. Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for uncompressed audio in media files and...

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form using an audio decoder for playback. An example of this is the codecs used in the sound cards of personal computers. A video codec accomplishes the...

(Lossless Digital Audio Codec) is a proprietary audio coding technology developed by Sony, which allows streaming high-resolution audio over Bluetooth connections...

TS 26.401 V6.0.0 (2004-09), General Audio Codec audio processing functions; Enhanced aacPlus General Audio Codec; General Description (Release 6)" (DOC)...

Latency High-Definition Audio Codec (LHDC) is an audio codec technology developed by Savitech. LHDC allows high-resolution audio streaming over Bluetooth...

low-complexity subband codec, is an audio subband codec specified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Advanced Audio Distribution Profile...

the MP2 audio codec; an upgraded version of the system was later developed and released named DAB+ which uses the HE-AAC v2 (AAC+) audio codec and is more...

Complexity Communication Codec) is an audio codec specified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for the LE Audio audio protocol introduced in...

variety of audio coding formats. For listening tests comparing the perceived audio quality of audio formats and codecs, see the article Codec listening...

different codecs designed by different manufacturers. IP audio codecs are available for wired and wireless broadband IP codec solutions. IP audio codecs are...

the audio coding format, the container containing the raw audio data, and an audio codec. A codec performs the encoding and decoding of the raw audio data...

internet Speech Audio Codec (iSAC) is a wideband speech codec, developed by Global IP Solutions (GIPS) (acquired by Google Inc in 2011). It is suitable...

codecs may use a higher audio bit depth of 16 bits to encode samples, also resulting in much better voice quality.[citation needed] Wideband codecs have...

listing of open-source codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats. Many of the codecs listed implement media...

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...

capable of audio compression and decompression to/from a specific audio coding format is called an audio codec; an example of an audio codec is LAME, which...

audio processing technology) is a family of proprietary audio codec compression algorithms owned by Qualcomm, with a heavy emphasis on wireless audio...

DTS-HD Master Audio (DTS-HD MA; known as DTS++ before 2004) is a multi-channel, lossless audio codec developed by DTS as an extension of the lossy DTS...

Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) is a royalty-free narrowband speech audio coding format and an open-source reference implementation (codec), developed by...

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...

DAC), modem codecs, and vendor-defined codecs Discoverable codec architecture Fine-grained codec power-control Audio jack detection, sensing, and retasking...

AC'97 (Audio Codec '97; also MC'97 for Modem Codec '97) is an audio codec standard developed by Intel Architecture Labs and various codec manufacturers...

Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC) is an audio compression format and codec for both music and speech or any mix of speech and audio using very low bit...