| Codec |
Description |
| PCM |
Standard Windows WAV format for non-compressed audio
files. Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) is the standard method of digitally
encoding audio. It is the basic uncompressed data format used in
file types such as Windows .wav. |
| ADPCM |
Compressed WAV format. ADPCM (Adaptive Differential
Pulse Code Modulation) is an audio compression scheme which compresses
from 16-bit to 4-bit for a 4:1 compression ratio. |
| A-LAW |
Compressed WAV format. A-Law (or CCITT standard G.711)
is an audio compression scheme common in telephony applications.
It is a slight variation of the u-Law compression format, and is
found in European systems. This encoding format compresses original
16-bit audio down to 8 bits (for a 2:1 compression ratio) with a
dynamic range of about 13-bits. Thus, a-law encoded waveforms have
a higher s/n ratio than 8-bit PCM, but at the price of a bit more
distortion than the original 16-bit audio. The quality is higher
than you would get with 4-bit ADPCM formats. Encoding and decoding
is rather fast and generally, widely supported. |
| U-LAW |
Compressed WAV format. u-Law (or CCITT standard G.711)
is an audio compression scheme and international standard in telephony
applications. u-Law is very similar to A-Law, a variation of u-Law
found in European systems. This encoding format compresses original
16-bit audio down to 8 bits (for a 2:1 compression ratio) with a
dynamic range of about 13-bits. Thus, u-Law encoded waveforms have
a higher s/n ratio than 8-bit PCM, but at the price of a bit more
distortion than the original 16-bit audio. The quality is higher
than you would get with 4-bit ADPCM formats. Encoding and decoding
is rather fast and generally, widely supported. |
| CCIT U-LAM |
Compressed WAV format |
| DSP |
Compressed WAV format. DSP Group True Speech (TM) format. |
| GSM |
Compressed WAV format. Good for keeping of human speech. |
| MP3 |
MPEG Layer-3 format. Very popular format for keeping
of music. |
MP2 |
MPEG Layer-2 format |
| Ogg
Vorbis |
Ogg Vorbis format. Ogg Vorbis is an audio compression
format. It is roughly comparable to other formats used to store
and play digital music, such as MP3, VQF, AAC, and other digital
audio formats. It is different from these other formats because
it is completely free, open, and unpatented. |
| WMA |
Windows Media Audio format. A special type of advanced
streaming format file for use with audio content encoded with the
Windows Media Audio codec. The .wma extension indicates a file format
and how the content is encoded. |
| CDA |
Audio CD tracks (Read Only) |
AVI |
Audio stream format (Read Only) |
AIFF |
Apple audio file format (Read Only) |
AU |
Unix audio file format (Read Only) |
| G.726 |
Used for computer telephony. Good for keeping of human
speech. |
| VOX |
Dialogic ADPCM format. The Dialogic ADPCM format is
commonly found in telephony applications, and has been optimized
for low sample rate voice. It will only save mono 16-bit audio,
and like other ADPCM formats, it compresses to 4-bits/sample (for
a 4:1 ratio). This format has no header, so any file format with
the extension .VOX will be assumed to be in this format. |
| RAW |
Raw format of audio files. Doesn't contain header
of an audio file. |
MPC |
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