Comparison of audio coding formats
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The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio coding formats. For listening tests comparing the perceived audio quality of audio formats and codecs, see the article Codec listening test.
Contents
General information
Audio compression format | Creator | First public release date | Latest stable version | Encoder cost | Player cost | Proprietary implementations (codecs) | Open-source implementations (codecs) | Application (besides consumer audio) | Music reproduction (consumer audio) | Telephony app | Lossless audio compression | Patented | DRM |
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AAC | ISO/IEC MPEG Audio Committee | 1997 | ISO/IEC 14496-3 | Non-free[1] | Non-free[1] | FAAC (encoding only), Nero Digital Audio, Apple CoreAudio (via QuickTime, iTunes or afconvert[2]) | FAAD2 (decoding only), FFmpeg, Audiocogs[3] (decoding only), Fraunhofer FDK AAC | Digital TV service, Digital Radio, Internet streaming | Yes | AAC-LD/AAC-ELD | MPEG-4 SLS | Non-free Yes | Non-free FairPlay (.m4p only, discontinued) |
AC-3 | Dolby Laboratories | 1992 | ATSC A52:2012 | Non-free | Non-free | DVD players, digital television | FFmpeg, liba52 (decoding only), Aften (encoding only), libavc (2.0 channels max) | Theatrical movie presentation, Digital TV service & home-video (personal recorders, DVD, etc.) | No | No | No | Non-free Yes | ? |
ALAC | Apple Inc. | 2004-04-28 | QuickTime 7.6 | Free | Free | QuickTime, iTunes, RealPlayer | MacOSforge, FFmpeg, Audiocogs[4] (decoding only) | - | Music archival | Yes | Yes | Free | Possible, but never implemented |
ALS | ISO/IEC MPEG Audio Committee | 2005 | ISO/IEC 14496-3 | Free | Free | mp4als | FFmpeg (decoding only) | - | - | No | Yes | Non-free Yes | ? |
AMBE | Digital Voice Systems | ? | ? | Non-free | Non-free | ? | mbelib | Low bandwidth HF/VHF digital radio, VoIP trunking | No | No | No | Non-free Yes | ? |
AMR | 3GPP | 1999-06-22 | ETSI TS 126 071 V9.0.0 (2009) | Non-free[5][6] | Non-free[5][6] | QuickTime, RealPlayer | FFmpeg (decoding only), FFmpeg with OpenCORE libraries,[7] Android[8] | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
AMR-WB (G.722.2) |
3GPP | 2001-04-10 | ETSI TS 126 190 V8.0.0 (2009-01) | Non-free | Non-free | QuickTime, RealPlayer | FFmpeg (decoding only),[7] FFmpeg with VisualOn libraries, Android (decoding only),[8] opencore-amr for both encoding and decoding | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
AMR-WB+ | 3GPP | 2004-06-14 | ETSI TS 126 290 V8.0.0 (2009-01) | Non-free[9][10] | Non-free[9][10] | ? | ? | voice recording | Yes | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
apt-X | APTX | 1989 | 2007 | Non-free | Non-free | Broadcast audio codecs: Systembase, APT, AVT, Harris Corporation, MAYAH, Prodys, Qbit; wireless headphones: iSkin, JayBird Gear, DTS discs for movies | ? | Low latency Studio/transmitter link, Bluetooth A2DP stereo, digital wireless microphone | Yes | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
ATRAC | Sony Corp. | 1991 | ATRAC3plus | Non-free | Non-free | MiniDisc, Walkman, VAIO, Clie, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, SDDS, SonicStage, SoundForge, RealPlayer, ConnectPlayer | FFmpeg (decoding only, ATRAC Advanced Lossless are not supported) | voice recording, theatrical movie presentation | - | No | Yes | Non-free Yes | Non-free Yes |
BroadVoice (BV16, BV32) | Broadcom | 2009-08-19 | 1.2 | Free | Free | ? | ? | Speech, VoIP, Low latency, voice recording | No | Yes | No | Free | No |
CELT | Xiph.Org Foundation, Jean-Marc Valin | 2007-12-08 | 0.11.1 | Free | Free | libcelt, FFmpeg with libcelt library (decoding only) | Speech, VoIP, Low latency, Studio/transmitter link, wireless audio | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | |
Codec2 | David Rowe | 2010 | Developmental | Free | Free | c2enc, c2dec | Low bandwidth HF/VHF digital radio, VoIP trunking | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
Enhanced AC-3 | Dolby Laboratories | ? | ATSC A52:2012 | Non-free | Non-free | Digital television | FFmpeg | Theatrical movie presentation, digital TV service & home-video (personal recorders, DVD, etc.) | No | No | No | Non-free Yes | ? |
FLAC | Xiph.Org Foundation, Josh Coalson | 2001-07-20 | 1.3.1 | Free | Free | FLAC,[11] Flake[12] (encoding only), FFmpeg, FLACCL[13] (encoding only), Audiocogs[14] (decoding only) | - | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
G.711 | ITU-T | 1972 (ITU-T standard from 1988) | G.711 Appendix II (02/00) | Free | Free | Various proprietary VoIP software | FFmpeg, Ekiga, Asterisk (PBX) and almost any VoIP software | voice recording | No | Yes | No | No | No |
G.722 | ITU-T | 1988-11 | Free | Free | Various proprietary VoIP software | Asterisk (PBX), QuteCom, FFmpeg | voice recording | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
G.722.1 | ITU-T | 1999-09 | G.722.1 (05/05) | Free[15][16] | Free[15][16] | Various proprietary VoIP software | FreeSWITCH,[17] PJSIP, etc | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
G.722.2 (AMR-WB) |
ITU-T (adopted directly from 3GPP) | 2002-01 | G.722.2 (07/03) | Non-free | Non-free | QuickTime, RealPlayer | FFmpeg (decoding only),[7] FFmpeg with VisualOn libraries, Android (decoding only)[8] | voice recording, audio | No | No | No | Non-free Yes | No |
G.723.1 | ITU-T | 1996-03 | G.723.1 (05/06) | Non-free | Non-free | Various proprietary VoIP software | FFmpeg | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
G.726 | ITU-T | 1990-12 | Free | Free | Various proprietary VoIP software | FFmpeg, Ekiga and other VoIP software | voice recording | No | Yes | No | No | No | |
G.728 | ITU-T | 1992-09 | Non-free | Non-free | Various proprietary VoIP software | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No | ||
G.729 | ITU-T | 1996-03 | G.729 (01/07) | Non-free | Non-free | Various proprietary VoIP software | FFmpeg (decoding only) | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
GSM-FR | ETSI Special Mobile Group | 1990-1994 (ETS 300 580-2) | ETSI EN 300 961 V8.1.1 (2000–11) | Free | Free | FFmpeg (decoding only), FFmpeg with external library libgsm, Ekiga and other VoIP software | voice recording | No | Yes | No | ? | No | |
iLBC | Global IP Solutions | 2002 | RFC 3951 | Free | Free | Cisco IP Communicator,[18] old versions of Skype[19] | Ekiga, Asterisk (PBX) and other VoIP software, FFmpeg with libilbc library | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Free[20] | No |
iSAC | Global IP Solutions | ? | Free | Free | Yahoo! Messenger | WebRTC | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes[21] | ? | |
Monkey's Audio | Matthew T. Ashland | 2000 | 4.16 | Free | Free | Monkey's Audio | FFmpeg (decoding only) | - | Music Archival | No | Yes | No | No |
MP2 (MPEG-1, 2 Audio Layer II) | ISO/IEC MPEG Audio Committee | 1993 | ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3 | Free[22] | Free[22] | various DVD software, video software, audio software | TooLAME (encoding only), TwoLAME (encoding only), FFmpeg | DAB, DVB, DVD | Yes | No | No | Free[23] | ? |
MP3 | ISO/IEC MPEG Audio Committee | 1993 | ISO/IEC 11172-3, ISO/IEC 13818-3 | Non-free (See notes) | Non-free (See notes) | FhG, l3enc, MP3enc, (old implementations: Xing TOMPG, SCMPX) | LAME (encoding only), FFmpeg (decoding only), libmad (decoding only), Audiocogs[24] (decoding only), (old implementations: BladeEnc) | - | Yes | No | No | Non-free Yes (but see notes) |
Non-free Yes (optional, rarely used) |
Musepack | Frank Klemm/MDT | 1997 | 1.30 (2009-04-02) | Free | Free | Musepack,[25] FFmpeg (decoding only) | - | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
Nellymoser Asao | Nellymoser Inc. | 2002 | ? | Non-free | Non-free | Adobe Flash, Flash Player | FFmpeg | voice recording | No | No | No | Non-free Yes | ? |
Opus | IETF | 2012-09-11 | RFC 6716 (libopus 1.1.2) | Free | Free | libopus, FFmpeg | Speech, VoIP, Low latency, Studio/transmitter link, wireless audio | Yes | Yes | No | Free[26] | No | |
SBC | Bluetooth SIG | 2003 | A2DP 1.3 (2012-07-24) | Free for Bluetooth | Free for Bluetooth | A2DP | BlueZ | Bluetooth audio | Yes | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | No |
Shorten | Tony Robinson | 1993-03-30 | 3.6.1 | Free | Free | Shorten | FFmpeg (decoding only) | - | - | No | Yes | No (with commercial use restriction) [27][28] | No |
SILK | Skype Limited | 2009-01-07 | Free | Free | Skype | SILK Speech Codec | voice recording | No | No | No | Non-free Yes | ? | |
Siren 7 | PictureTel Corp. (now Polycom Inc.) | 1999 | ?[15][16] | ?[15][16] | Microsoft Office Communicator | FreeSWITCH (libg722_1,[29] aMSN (libsiren - part of libmsn)[30][31] | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | ? | |
Speex | Xiph.Org Foundation, Jean-Marc Valin | 2003-03-24 | 1.1.12 | Free | Free | Adobe Flash Player 10 | Speex,[32] FFmpeg with libspeex library | voice recording | No | Yes | No | No | No |
SVOPC | Skype Limited | 2007 | ? | ? | Skype | voice recording | No | Yes | No | Non-free Yes | ? | ||
True Audio (TTA) | TAU Software | 1999 | 2.2 | Free | Free | TTA,[33] FFmpeg (decoding only) | - | - | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
TwinVQ | Nippon Telegraph and Telephone | 1996 (?) | Non-free | Non-free | Winamp with VQF plugin, NTT TwinVQ player/encoder, Yamaha SoundVQ player, Nero Media Player | FFmpeg (decoding only)[34] | speech | Yes | No | No | Non-free Yes | ? | |
Vorbis (Ogg) | Xiph.Org Foundation | 2000-05-11 | 1.3.5 | Free | Free | libvorbis,[35] aoTuV,[36] FFmpeg | - | Yes | No | No | No | No | |
WavPack | Conifer Software | 1998 | 4.75.2 | Free | Free | WavPack,[37] FFmpeg (decoding only) | - | - | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
Windows Media Audio | Microsoft | 1999 | 11.0 | Free Windows Media Encoder[38] | Free for licensees of the Windows operating system [39] | Windows Media Player, Windows Media Encoder | FFmpeg (decoding only for Pro, Lossless and Voice) | internet streaming | Yes | No | Yes | Non-free Yes | Non-free[40] |
Audio compression format | Creator | First public release date | Latest stable version | Encoder cost | Player cost | Proprietary implementations (codecs) | Open-source implementations (codecs) | Application (besides consumer audio) | Music reproduction (consumer audio) | Telephony app | Lossless audio compression | Patented | DRM |
Notes
- The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. (For example, in terms of marketshare, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.)
- First public release date is first of either specification publishing or source releasing, or in the case of closed-specification, closed-source codecs, is the date of first binary releasing. Many developing codecs have pre-releases consisting of pre-1.0 versions and perhaps 1.0 release candidates (RCs), although 1.0 may not necessarily be the release version.
- Latest stable version is that of specification or reference tools.
- If there happens to be OSI licensed software available for a particular format, this does not necessarily permit one to use said codec free of charge. Likewise, if there is only proprietary licensed software available for a particular format, one might be able to use the codec free of charge.
- MP3 license and patent status: The MP3 format is patented and therefore subject to license (expires latest: 2017). However, with multiple contenders for the patent, it is far from certain in the market who is the patent holder with the right to set pricing and royalties. A sample of prices for one patent-holder is available. In practice, there is a wide range of MP3 authoring software and MP3 encoding worldwide is often performed on a private basis and unpaid, with patent rights unenforced against end-users. See MP3#Licensing and patent issues.
Operating system support
Codec | Windows | Mac OS X | GNU/Linux | BSD | Unix | Palm OS | Symbian OS | Rockbox | Android[41] | Chromium[42] |
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AAC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
ALAC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
apt-X | Yes | Yes | Yes[citation needed] | Yes[citation needed] | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
CELT | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No |
FLAC | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Monkey's Audio | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No |
MP3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Musepack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Opus | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
RealAudio[43] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Speex | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Vorbis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
True Audio (TTA) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WavPack | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
WMA[43] | Yes | Yes[44] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Multimedia frameworks support
Technical details
Audio compression format | Algorithm | Sample Rate | Bit rate | Latency | CBR | VBR | Stereo | Multichannel |
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AAC | MDCT, Hybrid Subband (AAC-HE) | 8–192 kHz[48] | 8–529 kbit/s (stereo) | 20–405 ms[49] | Yes | Yes | Yes: Dual, Mid/Side, Intensity, Parametric | Yes: Up to 48 channels |
AC3 | MDCT | 32, 44.1, 48 kHz | 32–640 kbit/s | 40.6 ms | Yes | No | Yes | Yes: Up to 6 channels |
AMBE | ? | 8 kHz | 2, 9.6 kbit/s | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
AMR | ACELP | 8 kHz | 4.75, 5.15, 5.90, 6.70, 7.40, 7.95, 10.20, 12.20 kbit/s | 25 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
AMR-WB (G.722.2) |
ACELP | 16 kHz | 6.60, 8.85, 12.65, 14.25, 15.85, 18.25, 19.85, 23.05, 23.85 kbit/s | 25 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes: only in MPEG-4 Part 12 container | No |
AMR-WB+ | ACELP | 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48 kHz | 6–36 kbit/s (mono) 7–48 kbit/s (stereo) |
60–90 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
apt-X | Subband | 24–48 kHz (stereo) | 192–384 kbit/s (stereo) | 2 ms | Yes (4:1) | No | Yes | Yes: Up to 8 channels |
ATRAC1 | MDCT-Hybrid Subband | 44.1 kHz | 292 kbit/s | >100 ms | Yes | No | Yes: Dual Only | No |
ATRAC3 | MDCT-Hybrid Subband | 44.1 kHz | 66, 105, 132, 146, 176, 264, 352 kbit/s | >100 ms | Yes | No | Yes: Dual (LP2), Mid/Side (LP4) | No |
ATRAC3plus | MDCT-Hybrid Subband | 44.1 kHz | 48–352 kbit/s | >100 ms | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes: Up to 6 channels |
BroadVoice (BV16, BV32) | Two-Stage Noise Feedback Coding (TSNFC) | 8, 16 kHz | 16, 32 kbit/s [50] | 5 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
Codec2 | Speech | 8 kHz | 1.2, 1.4, 2.4, 2.55 kbit/s | 20–40 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
GSM-HR | VSELP | 8 kHz | 5.6 kbit/s | 25 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
GSM-FR | RPE-LTP | 8 kHz | 13 kbit/s | 20–30 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
GSM-EFR | ACELP | 8 kHz | 12.2 kbit/s | 20–30 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
HVXC | Speech | 8 kHz | 2, 4 kbit/s | 36 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
iLBC | Block Independent LPC | 8 kHz | 13.33, 15.20 kbit/s | 25, 40 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
iSAC | Transform coding | 16, 32 kHz | 10–52 kbit/s | 33, 63 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
MP3 (MPEG-1, 2, 2.5 Audio Layer III) | MDCT, Hybrid Subband | 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48 kHz | 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320 kbit/s | >100 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes: Dual, Mid/Side, Intensity | No |
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II (MP2) | Subband | 32, 44.1, 48 kHz | 32, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256, 320, 384 kbit/s | Yes | Yes: but decoders are not required to support it | Yes: Dual, Intensity | No | |
MPEG-2 Audio Layer II (MP2) | Subband | 16, 22.05, 24 kHz[51][52] | 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 80, 96, 112, 128, 144, 160 kbit/s[51] | Yes | Yes: but decoders are not required to support it | Yes | Yes: up to 5 full range audio channels and an LFE-channel with MPEG Multichannel | |
Musepack | Subband | 32, 37.8, 44.1, 48 kHz | 3–1300 kbit/s | ? | No | Yes | Yes | Yes: Up to 8 channels |
Opus | LP, MDCT | 8–48 kHz | 6–510 kbit/s | 5–66.5 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes: Up to 255 channels[53] |
RealAudio | MDCT | Varies (see article) | Varies (see article) | Varies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes: Up to 6 channels |
SILK | LTP | 8, 12, 16, 24 kHz | 6–40 kbit/s | 25 ms | Yes | ? | ? | ? |
Siren 7 | Derived from PT716plus, MLT | 16 kHz | 16, 24, 32 kbit/s | 40 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
Siren 14 | MLT | 32 kHz | 24, 32, 48 kbit/s (mono) 48, 64, 96 kbit/s (stereo) |
40 ms | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Siren 22 | MLT | 48 kHz | 32, 48, 64 kbit/s (mono) 64, 96, 128 kbit/s (stereo) |
40 ms | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Speex | CELP | 8, 16, 32, (48) kHz | 2.15–24.6 kbit/s (NB) 4–44.2 kbit/s (WB) |
30 ms (NB) 34 ms (WB) |
Yes | Yes | Yes: Intensity | Yes |
VMR-WB | ACELP | 16 kHz | 8.55, 4.0, 0.8, 13.3, 6.2, 2.7, 1.0 kbit/s | 33.75 ms | Yes | Yes | ? | ? |
Vorbis (Ogg) | MDCT | 1 Hz to 200 kHz | variable | >100 ms | Yes/ABR | Yes | Yes: Dual, Lossless, Phase, Point (Intensity) | Yes: Up to 255 channels |
WavPack Lossy | Prediction, Quantization | 1 Hz to 16.777216 MHz | 196 kbit/s and up in lossy mode (for CD audio) | ? | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes: Up to 256 channels |
Windows Media Audio Standard | MDCT | 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48 kHz | 8–768 kbit/s | >100 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
Windows Media Audio Pro | MDCT | 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz | 4–768 kbit/s | >100 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes: At least 8 channels, expandable |
Audio compression format | Algorithm | Sample Rate | Bits per sample | Latency | Stereo | Multichannel |
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ALAC | Lossless | 1–384000 Hz | 16, 20, 24, 32[54] | ? | Yes | Yes: Up to 8 channels |
FLAC | Lossless | 1–655350 Hz | 8, 16, 20, 24, 32 | 4.3–92 ms (46.4 ms typical) | Yes | Yes: Up to 8 channels |
Monkey's Audio | Lossless | 1–655350 Hz[citation needed] | 8, 16, 24 | 1670 to 26,749 ms (varies with compression) | Yes | No |
RealAudio Lossless | Lossless | Varies (see article) | Varies (see article) | Varies | Yes | Yes: Up to 6 channels |
True Audio (TTA) | Lossless | 0–4 GHz | 1 to > 64 | approx. 1045 ms[55] | Yes | Yes: Up to 65535 channels |
WavPack Lossless | Lossless, Hybrid | 1 Hz to 16.777216 MHz | Varies in lossless mode; supports 32-bit float input; 2.2 minimum in lossy mode | ? | Yes | Yes: Up to 256 channels |
Windows Media Audio Lossless | Lossless | 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz | 16, 24 | >100 ms | Yes | Yes: Up to 6 channels |
Audio compression format | Algorithm | Sample Rate | Bit rate | Bits per sample | Latency | CBR | VBR | Stereo | Multichannel |
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G.711 | companding A-law or μ-law, PCM | 8 kHz | 64 kbit/s | 8 bit (log) | 125 µs (typical) | Yes | No | No | No |
G.711.0 | Lossless compression of G.711 | 8 kHz | 0.2–65.6 kbit/s | 8 bit (log) | 5–40 ms | No | Yes | No | No |
G.711.1 | MDCT, A-law, μ-law | 8, 16 kHz | 64, 80, 96 kbit/s | 16 bit | 11.875 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
G.718 | CELP, MDCT, Lossy | 8, 16 kHz | 8, 12, 12.65, 16, 24, 32 kbit/s | 16 bit | 42.875–43.875 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
G.718B | CELP, MDCT, Lossy, Sinusoidal Coding | 32 kHz | 36, 40, 48 kbit/s | 16 bit | 49.625 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
G.719 | Lossy, (incorporates elements of Siren Codec and Ericsson technology) | 48 kHz | 32–88 kbit/s in 4 kbit/s steps, 88–128 kbit/s in 8 kbit/s steps | 16 bit | 40 ms | Yes | No | Yes: only in MPEG-4 Part 12 container | Yes: only in MPEG-4 Part 12 container |
G.721 | ADPCM, Lossy | 8 kHz | 32 kbit/s | 13 bit | Yes | No | No | No | |
G.722 | sub-band ADPCM, Lossy | 16 kHz | 64 kbit/s (comprises 48, 56 or 64 kbit/s audio and 16, 8 or 0 kbit/s auxiliary data) |
14 bit | 4 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.722.1 | Modulated Lapped Transform, (based on Siren Codec), Lossy | 16 kHz | 24, 32 kbit/s | 16 bit | 40 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.722.1C | Modulated Lapped Transform, (based on Siren Codec), Lossy | 32 kHz | 24, 32, 48 kbit/s | 16 bit | 40 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.722.2 (AMR-WB) | multi-rate wideband ACELP, Lossy | 16 kHz | 6.60, 8.85, 12.65, 14.25, 15.85, 18.25, 19.85, 23.05, 23.85 kbit/s | 14 bit | 25 ms | Yes | Yes | Yes: only in MPEG-4 Part 12 container | No |
G.723 | ADPCM, Lossy | 8 kHz | 24, 40 kbit/s | 13 bit | Yes | No | No | No | |
G.723.1 | MP-MLQ, ACELP, Lossy | 8 kHz | 5.3, 6.3 kbit/s | 13 bit | 37.5 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.726 | ADPCM, Lossy | 8 kHz | 16, 24, 32, 40 kbit/s | 13 bit | 125 µs | Yes | No | No | No |
G.727 | ADPCM, Lossy | 8 kHz | 16, 24, 32, 40 kbit/s | 13 bit | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
G.728 | low-delay CELP, Lossy | 8 kHz | 16 kbit/s | 13 bit | 0.625 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.729 | CS-ACELP, Lossy | 8 kHz | 8 kbit/s | 13 bit | 15 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.729D | CS-ACELP, Lossy | 8 kHz | 6.4 kbit/s | 13 bit | Yes | No | No | No | |
G.729E | CS-ACELP, Lossy | 8 kHz | 11.8 kbit/s | 13 bit | 15 ms | Yes | No | No | No |
G.729.1 | CELP, TDBWE, TDAC, Lossy | 8, 16 kHz | 8 kbit/s, 12–32 kbit/s in 2 kbit/s steps | 16 bit | 48.9375 ms | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Notes
- The latency listed here is the total delay (frame size, plus all lookahead) at the normal operating sample rate (typically 44.1 kHz).
- Lossless compression will have a variable bit rate.
See also
- Codec listening test
- Comparison of audio player software
- Comparison of video player software
- List of codecs
- Comparison of video codecs
- Comparison of container formats
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 variable price
- ↑ afconvert(1) Manual Page - Apple Developer, retrieved 2015-05-17
- ↑ AAC.js at the audiocogs website, retrieved 2013-08-03
- ↑ ALAC.js at the audiocogs website, retrieved 2013-08-03
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 FFmpeg General Documentation - AMR external library, Retrieved on 2009-07-08
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Android AMR codecs, Retrieved on 2009-07-08
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ FLAC website, Retrieved 2013-08-03
- ↑ Flake website, Retrieved 2010-12-17
- ↑ FLACCL website, Retrieved 2013-08-03
- ↑ FLAC.js at the audiocogs website, retrieved 2013-08-03
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ libg722_1
- ↑ Cisco IP Communicator 7.0 Data sheet - support for iLBC Retrieved on 2009-07-08
- ↑ Skype Community, Current Codec Uses, Retrieved on 2009-07-08
- ↑ Google Inc.'s Statement about IPR related to RFC 3951 and RFC 3952
- ↑ iSAC patents may be used royalty-free as part of the WebRTC codebase
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 FFmpeg/Libavcodec, numerous others, see Open Source implementations FFMPEG formats
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- ↑ Windows Media Encoder
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- ↑ MPEG 2 AAC was limited to a 96 kHz sampling rate, however, with MPEG 4 AAC, a later version part of the MPEG 4 specification, the maximum sampling rate has been increased to 192 kHz.
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- ↑ The Apple Lossless Format
- ↑ At the typical sample rate of 44.1 kHz, each frame contains 1.04489795918367346939 s of audio in TTA1 (80 granules of 576 samples each), or 1 s in TTA2 (in development).
External links
- Comparative test April, 2004
- EBU subjective listening tests on low-bitrate audio codecs
- Hydrogenaudio comparison of lossless formats
- Tsabary, Eldad. “A Survey of Audio Coders for Electronic-Art Music.” eContact! 9.4 — Perte auditive et sujets connexes / Hearing (Loss) and Related Issues (May 2007). Montréal: CEC.
- Rodman, Jeffrey "VoIP to 20 kHz: Codec Choices for High Definition Voice Telephony" (July, 2008)