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List of open-source codecs

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This is a listing of multimedia codecs and containers playable with open source software. That doesn't necessarily mean that further restrictions (such as software patents) don't exist for these formats, which is the case for many of them, like MP3.

Containers

Video Codecs

  • x264 - H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) implementation.
  • XviD - MPEG-4 part 2 codec, compatible with DivX.
  • FFmpeg codecs - codecs in the libavcodec library from the FFmpeg project (FFV1, Snow, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 part 2, MSMPEG-4, H.264, WMV2, SVQ3, MJPEG, HuffYUV, Indeo and others).
  • Theora - Based on VP3, part of the Ogg Project.
  • Dirac - Wavelet based codec created by the BBC.
  • Huffyuv - Lossless codec from BenRG.

Audio Codecs

  • FLAC - Lossless compression.
  • iLBC - Low bitrate voice compression.
  • Musepack - Lossy compression; an attempt to replicate the MP3 format.
  • Speex - Low bitrate compression, primarily voice.
  • TTA - Lossles compression
  • Vorbis - Lossy compression; developed by Xiph.org.
  • WavPack - Hybrid lossy/lossless

Text Codecs

(generally used for subtitles/closed captioning)

See also

 

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