List of codecs

Audio compression formats

Non-compression

• Linear pulse-code modulation is the format for uncompressed audio in media files and it is also the standard for CD-DA; note that in computers, LPCM is usually stored in container formats such as WAV, AIFF, or AU, or as raw audio format, although not technically necessary.
• * FFmpeg
• Pulse-density modulation
• * Direct Stream Digital is standard for Super Audio CD
• ** foobar2000 Super Audio CD Decoder
• ** FFmpeg
• Pulse-amplitude modulation

Lossless compression

• * Most popular
• ** Free Lossless Audio Codec
• *** libFLAC
• *** FFmpeg
• ** Apple Lossless Audio Codec
• *** Apple QuickTime
• *** libalac
• *** FFmpeg
• *** Apple Music
• ** Monkey's Audio
• *** Monkey's Audio SDK
• *** FFmpeg
• ** OptimFROG
• ** Tom's verlustfreier Audiokompressor
• *** TAK SDK
• *** FFmpeg
• ** WavPack
• *** libwavpack
• *** FFmpeg
• ** True Audio
• *** libtta
• *** FFmpeg
• ** Windows Media Audio Lossless
• *** Windows Media Encoder
• *** FFmpeg
• * Other
• ** DTS-HD Master Audio, also known as DTS++ and DCA XLL
• *** libdca
• *** FFmpeg
• ** Dolby TrueHD – Standard for DVD-Audio in Blu-ray
• *** FFmpeg
• ** Meridian Lossless Packing, also known as Packed PCM – Standard for DVD-Audio in DVD
• *** FFmpeg
• ** MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding
• *** SSC, DST, ALS and SLS reference software
• *** FFmpeg
• ** MPEG-4 Scalable Lossless Coding – Parts of it are used in HD-AAC.
• *** SSC, DST, ALS and SLS reference software
• ** RealAudio Lossless
• *** RealPlayer
• *** FFmpeg
• ** BFDLAC. Ongoing development.
• *** FXpansion's BFD3 drum software.
• **L2HC - Huawei
• *** Huawei Music
• *** NearLink
• *** Huawei FreeBuds
• * Oddball
• ** ATRAC Advanced Lossless – Extremely unpopular
• *** FFmpeg
• ** Direct Stream Transfer - Only used for Direct Stream Digital
• *** SSC, DST, ALS and SLS reference software
• *** FFmpeg
• ** Original Sound Quality - Only used in WaveLab
• *** FFmpeg Discontinued
• * Lossless Audio – No update for 10+ years
• * Shorten – Officially discontinued.
• ** libshn
• ** FFmpeg
• * Lossless Predictive Audio Compression – Predecessor of MPEG-4 ALS
• * Lossless Transform Audio Compression – Predecessor of LPAC
• * MPEG-1 Audio Layer III HD – Officially discontinued
• * RK Audio – Officially discontinued
• ** FFmpeg

Lossy compression

• Discrete cosine transform
• * Modified discrete cosine transform

General/Speech hybrid

• Unified Speech and Audio Coding
• * exhale
• * FFmpeg
• IETF standards:
• * Opus – based on SILK vocoder and CELT codec
• ** libopus
• ** FFmpeg
• IETF Internet Draft
• * IPMR Speech Codec - used in Spirit DSP's TeamSpirit Voice&Video Engine

Neural audio codecs

• Lyra (codec) - used in Google Duo
• Lyra V2 - based on SoundStream neural codec
• Satin
• Facebook EnCodec
• WavTokenizer

General

• Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
• Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding
• * FFmpeg
• ATSC/ETSI standards:
• * Dolby Digital
• ** FFmpeg
• ** liba52
• * Dolby Digital Plus
• ** FFmpeg
• * DTS Coherent Acoustics
• ** FFmpeg
• ** libdca
• * Dolby AC-4
• Impala Blackbird audio codec
• ITU standards:
• * G.719
• * G.722
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.722.1 and G.722.1 Annex C
• ** libg722_1
• ** libsiren
• * G.722.2
• ** 3GPP TS 26.173 – AMR-WB speech Codec – reference implementation
• ** opencore-amr
• ** VisualOn AMR-WB encoder
• ** FFmpeg
• * EVS
• MPEG-1 Audio and MPEG-2 Audio
• * layer I
• ** FFmpeg
• * layer II
• ** FFmpeg
• ** tooLame
• ** twoLame
• * layer III
• ** FFmpeg
• ** LAME
• * Advanced Audio Coding
• ** FAAC and FAAD
• ** FFmpeg
• ** iTunes
• ** Nero AAC Codec
• ** VisualOn AAC Encoder
• ** Fraunhofer FDK AAC
• ** libaacplus
• MPEG-4 Audio
• * Advanced Audio Coding, HE-AAC and AAC-LD
• ** FAAC, FAAD2
• ** FFmpeg
• ** iTunes
• ** Nero AAC Codec
• ** MPEG-4 AAC reference software
• * Harmonic and Individual Lines and Noise
• ** MPEG-4 reference software
• * TwinVQ
• ** MPEG-4 reference software
• ** FFmpeg
• * BSAC
• ** MPEG-4 reference software
• MPEG-H
• * MPEG-H 3D Audio
• Musepack
• * Musepack SV8 Tools
• * FFmpeg
• NICAM
• AT&T Perceptual Audio Coder
• Precision Adaptive Subband Coding
• QDesign
• * QDesign Music Codec – used in Apple QuickTime
• ** FFmpeg
• PictureTel
• * Siren 7
• ** libg722_1
• ** libsiren
• ** FFmpeg
• * Siren 14
• ** libg722_1
• ** vgmstream
• * Siren 22
• NTT TwinVQ
• * FFmpeg
• * NTT TwinVQ Encoder, NTT TwinVQ Player
• Voxware MetaSound
• * Windows Media Player
• * FFmpeg
• Vorbis
• * aoTuV
• * FFmpeg
• * libvorbis
• * Tremor
• Windows Media Audio
• * Windows Media Encoder
• * FFmpeg
• * ADC codec
• Cook Codec
• * FFmpeg

  AES3

• SMPTE 302M
• * FFmpeg
• Dolby E
• * FFmpeg

  Bluetooth

• Bluetooth Special Interest Group
• * Low Complexity Subband Coding
• ** BlueZ's SBC library
• ** Fluoride Bluetooth stack
• ** FFmpeg
• * CVSD 8 kHz - used in Hands-Free Profile (HFP)
• * modified SBC - used in Hands-Free Profile
• ** BlueZ's SBC library
• ** Fluoride Bluetooth stack
• ** FFmpeg
• * SBC XQ
• ** PulseAudio's bluetooth stack
• ** PipeWire's bluetooth stack
• * LC3
• ** Google's liblc3 - used in Android 13 and later
• ETSI
• * LC3plus
• ** Google's liblc3
• Qualcomm Technologies International
• * aptX
• ** Qualcomm libaptX
• ** FFmpeg
• * aptX HD
• ** Qualcomm libaptXHD
• ** FFmpeg
• * aptX Low Latency
• * aptX Adaptive
• * FastStream - a variant of SBC codec for bi-directional audio transmission
• Sony
• * LDAC
• ** libldac - used in Android Oreo
• ** libldacdec
• HWA Alliance/Savitech
• * LHDC
• ** HWA encoder/decoder
• * LLAC
• **HWA encoder/decoder
• HiBy
• * Ultra Audio Transmission
• Samsung
• * Samsung HD/UHQ-BT codec
• * Samsung Scalable codec
• * Samsung Seamless codec
• MQA
• * MQair

  Digital radio

• Hybrid Digital Coding - used in HD Radio
• * NRSC-5 receiver for rtl-sdr
• * gr-nrsc5

Voice

• Linear predictive coding
• * Code-excited linear prediction
• ** Algebraic code-excited linear prediction
• Xiph.Org Foundation
• * Speex, patent free
• ** libspeex
• ** FFmpeg
• Dialogic ADPCM
• * FFmpeg
• ITU standards:
• * G.711, also known as PCM of voice frequencies
• ** Sun Microsystems's public domain implementation
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.711.0
• * G.711.1
• * G.711.1D
• * G.718
• * G.718B
• * G.719
• * G.721
• ** Sun Microsystems's public domain implementation
• * G.722
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.722B
• * G.722.2
• ** 3GPP TS 26.173 – AMR-WB speech Codec – reference implementation
• ** opencore-amr
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.723
• ** Sun Microsystems's public domain implementation
• * G.723.1
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.726
• ** Sun Microsystems's public domain implementation
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.727
• ** Sun Microsystems's public domain implementation
• * G.728
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.729
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.729a
• * G.729b
• * G.729ab
• * G.729d
• ** FFmpeg
• * G.729e
• * G.729.1
• * G.729.1E
• Google
• * internet Speech Audio Codec
• ** WebRTC
• Nellymoser Asao Codec
• * FFmpeg
• RealNetworks
• * RealAudio 1
• ** FFmpeg
• * RealAudio 2
• ** FFmpeg
• PictureTel PT716, PT716plus
• PictureTel PT724
• RTAudio – used by Microsoft Live Communication Server
• SVOPC – used by Skype
• OpenLPC – created by Future Dynamics
• * HawkVoice
• ANSI/SCTE
• * ANSI/SCTE 24-21 2006
• ** BroadVoice Speech Codec Open Source C Code
• * ANSI/SCTE 24-22 2013
• * ANSI/SCTE 24-23 2007
• ** BroadVoice Speech Codec Open Source C Code
• IETF RFCs:
• * Internet Low Bit Rate Codec – developed by Global IP Solutions/Google
• ** WebRTC
• IETF Internet Draft
• * SILK
• * CELT
• ** libcelt
• MPEG-4 Audio
• * MPEG-4 CELP
• * MPEG-4 HVXC
• Skyphone MPLP
• Inmarsat
• * INMARSAT-M IMBE
• * Inmarsat Mini-M AMBE
• Meta MLow - used in Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp.

  Microsoft DirectPlay

• Voxware MetaVoice
• * Windows Media Player
• Truespeech
• * Windows Media Player
• * FFmpeg
• MS GSM
• * Windows Media Player
• * libgsm
• * FFmpeg
• MS-ADPCM
• * Windows Media Player
• * FFmpeg

  Digital Voice Recorder

• International Voice Association standards:
• * Digital Speech Standard / Standard Play
• ** FFmpeg
• * Digital Speech Standard / Quality Play
• Sony LPEC
• Truespeech Triple Rate CODER – used in some pocket recorders
• Intermetall MI-SC4 - used by voice recorders such as RadioShack Digital Recorder and HyperHyde
• * FFmpeg
• Sanyo LD-ADPCM - used by Sanyo ICR series
• * FFmpeg

  Mobile phone

Generation 2

• European Telecommunications Standards Institute GSM
• * Full Rate
• ** libgsm
• ** FFmpeg
• * Half Rate
• * Enhanced Full Rate
• Telecommunications Industry Association IS-95
• * IS-96A
• * IS-127
• * IS-733
• Telecommunications Industry Association IS-54/IS-136
• * IS-85
• ** ITU-T G.191's IS-54 implementation
• * IS-641
• Association of Radio Industries and Businesses RCR STD-27
• * PDC-HR
• * PDC-FR
• * PDC-EFR CS-ACELP 8 kbit/s
• * PDC-EFR ACELP 6.7 kbit/s

  Generation 3/4

• 3rd Generation Partnership Project
• * Adaptive Multi-Rate
• ** AMR-NB
• *** 3GPP TS 26.073 – AMR speech Codec – reference implementation
• *** opencore-amr
• *** FFmpeg
• ** AMR-WB
• *** 3GPP TS 26.173 – AMR-WB speech Codec – reference implementation
• *** opencore-amr, from OpenCORE
• *** vo-amrwbenc, from VisualOn, included in Android
• *** FFmpeg.
• ** AMR-WB+
• *** 3GPP TS 26.273 – AMR-WB+ speech Codec – reference implementation
• ** Enhanced Voice Services
• *** 3GPP TS.26.443 – Codec for Enhanced Voice Services – ANSI C code
• 3rd Generation Partnership Project 2
• * Enhanced Variable Rate Codec – based on RCELP
• ** FFmpeg
• * Enhanced Variable Rate Codec B
• * QCELP
• ** QCELP-8
• *** FFmpeg
• ** QCELP-13
• *** FFmpeg
• * Selectable Mode Vocoder
• * Variable Multi Rate – WideBand

  Professional mobile radio

• APCO
• * Project 25 Phase 2 Enhanced Full-Rate
• * Project 25 Phase 2 Half-Rate – also used in NXDN and DMR
• ** mbelib
• * Project 25 Phase 1 Full Rate
• ** mbelib
• European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• * ETS 300 395-2
• TETRAPOL
• * RPCELP 6 kbit/s
• D-STAR Digital Voice
• * mbelib
• Professional Digital Trunking System Industry Association standards:
• * NVOC – used in China
• Spirit DSP RALCWI
• DSPINI
• * SPR Robust
• * TWELP Robust
• Codec2
• * libcodec2
• RL-CELP

  Military

• U.S. Department of Defense Federal Standard:
• * FS-1015
• ** HawkVoice
• * FS-1016
• ** HawkVoice
• * FS-1023
• United States Military Standard
• * MIL-STD-188 113
• ** SoX
• * MIL-STD-3005
• ** Texas Instruments' 2.4 kbit/s MELP Proposed Federal Standard speech coder
• NATO
• * STANAG 4198
• ** SpanDSP
• * STANAG-4591
• ** Microsoft Speech coder
• BBN NRV – developed in DARPA program

Video games

• Bink Audio, Smacker Audio
• * FFmpeg
• Actimagine FastAudio
• * MobiclipDecoder
• * FFmpeg
• Nintendo GCADPCM - used in GameCube, Wii and Nintendo 3DS.
• * vgmstream
• * VGAudio
• * FFmpeg
• Sony VAG
• * vgmstream
• * FFmpeg
• Sony HEVAG - used in PS Vita.
• * vgmstream
• Sony ATRAC9 - used in PS4 and PS Vita.
• * VGAudio
• * FFmpeg
• Microsoft XMA - WMA variants for Xbox 360 hardware decoding.
• * FFmpeg
• Xbox ADPCM
• * vgmstream
• * FFmpeg
• CRI ADX ADPCM
• * vgmstream
• * VGAudio
• * FFmpeg
• CRI AHX
• CRI HCA/HCA-MX - used in CRI ADX2 middleware.
• * vgmstream
• * VGAudio
• * FFmpeg
• * libcgss
• * HCADecoder
• FMOD FADPCM
• * vgmstream

Text compression formats

• BiM
• Continuous Media Markup Language
• MPEG-4 Part 17
• ttyrec

Video compression formats

Non-compression">Uncompressed video">Non-compression

• RGB 4:4:4
• YUV 4:4:4/4:2:2/4:1:1/4:2:0.
• * Intel IYUV
• 10-bit uncompressed video
• Composite digital signal - used by SMPTE D-2 and D-3 broadcast digital videocassettes
• Avid DNxUncompressed
• V210 - defined by Apple and used by Serial digital interface Input/output video cards

Analog signals

• PAL broadcast signal
• * Pyctools-PAL
• NTSC broadcast signal
• * gr-ntsc
• LaserDisc RF signal
• * ld-decode
• VHS / S-VHS / U-Matic RF signal
• * VHS-Decode
• Composite Video Baseband Signal
• * VHS-Decode's CVBS-Decode

Lossless">Data compression#Lossless">Lossless video compression

• ITU-T/ISO/IEC standards:
• * H.264 lossless
• ** x264
• ** FFmpeg
• ** NVDEC/NVENC
• * H.265 lossless
• ** x265
• ** UHDcode
• **FFmpeg
• ** NVDEC/NVENC
• * Motion JPEG 2000 lossless
• ** libopenjpeg
• * JPEG XS lossless
• ** FastTICO-XS
• IETF standards:
• * FFV1 – FFV1's compression factor is comparable to Motion JPEG 2000, but based on quicker algorithms. Written by Michael Niedermayer and published as part of FFmpeg under GNU LGPL.
• ** FFmpeg
• SMPTE standards:
• * VC-2 HQ lossless
• ** libdirac
• ** libschroedinger
• Alparysoft Lossless Video Codec
• Apple Animation
• * QuickTime
• * FFmpeg
• ArithYuv
• AV1
• * libaom
• AVIzlib
• * LCL MSZH and ZLIB
• * FFmpeg
• Autodesk Animator Codec
• * FFmpeg
• CAI Format
• CamStudio GZIP/LZO
• * FFmpeg
• Chennai Codec
• * Cairo Experimental Video Codec
• Dxtory
• * FFmpeg
• FastCodec
• Flash Screen Video v1/v2
• * FFmpeg
• FM Screen Capture Codec
• * FFmpeg
• Fraps codec
• * FFmpeg
• Grass Valley Lossless
• * Grass Valley Codec Option
• * FFmpeg
• Huffyuv Huffyuv was written by Ben Rudiak-Gould and published under the terms of the GNU GPL as free software, meant to replace uncompressed YCbCr as a video capture format. It uses very little CPU but takes a lot of disk space. See also ffvhuff which is an "FFmpeg only" version of it.
• * FFmpeg
• IgCodec
• Intel RLE
• innoHeim/Rsupport Screen Capture Codec
• * FFmpeg
• Lagarith A more up-to-date fork of Huffyuv is available as Lagarith
• * Lagarith Codec
• * FFmpeg
• LOCO - based on JPEG-LS
• * FFmpeg
• MagicYUV
• * MagicYUV SDK
• * FFmpeg
• Microsoft RLE
• * FFmpeg
• MSU Lossless Video Codec
• MSU Screen Capture Lossless
• - based on PNG
• * FFmpeg
• ScreenPresso
• * FFmpeg
• ScreenPressor - a successor of MSU Screen Capture Lossless
• * FFmpeg
• SheerVideo
• * FFmpeg
• Snow lossless
• * FFmpeg
• TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
• * EnSharpen Video Codec for QuickTime
• * FFmpeg
• Toponoky
• Ut Video Codec Suite
• * libutvideo
• * FFmpeg
• VBLE
• * FFmpeg
• VP9 by Google
• * libvpx
• * FFmpeg
• YULS
• ZeroCodec
• * FFmpeg
• Codec - used by DOSBox
• * FFmpeg

Lossless game codecs

• DXA
• * ScummVM Tools
• * FFmpeg

Lossy compression

• Discrete cosine transform

General

• ITU-T/ISO/IEC standards:
• * H.120
• * H.261
• ** FFmpeg H.261
• ** Microsoft H.263
• * MPEG-1 Part 2
• ** FFmpeg
• ** MainConcept MPEG-1
• ** TMPGEnc
• * H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2
• ** Canopus ProCoder
• ** Cinema Craft Encoder
• ** FFmpeg
• ** InterVideo Video Decoder
• ** MainConcept MPEG-2
• ** Microsoft H.263
• ** TMPGEnc
• ** NVDEC
• * H.263
• ** FFmpeg H.263
• * MPEG-4 Part 2
• ** 3ivx
• ** DivX
• ** libavcodec
• ** HDX4
• ** Nero Digital
• ** Xvid
• * H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-4 Part 10, approved for Blu-ray
• ** CoreAVC
• ** MainConcept
• ** Nero Digital
• ** QuickTime H.264
• ** Sorenson AVC Pro codec, Sorenson's new implementation
• ** OpenH264
• ** x264
• ** FFmpeg
• ** NVDEC/NVENC
• * MPEG-4 AVC variants:
• ** MPEG-4 Web Video Coding or MPEG-4 Part 29 – a subset of MPEG-4 AVC baseline profile
• ** XAVC
• * HEVC
• ** x265
• ** NVDEC/NVENC
• * Versatile Video Coding
• ** VVC Test Model
• ** Fraunhofer Versatile Video Decoder
• ** Fraunhofer Versatile Video Encoder
• ** FFmpeg
• * Video Coding for Browsers (VCB)/VP8
• ** libvpx
• ** FFmpeg
• ** NVDEC
• *Internet Video Coding
• * Essential Video Coding
• ** eXtra-fast Essential Video Encoder
• ** eXtra-fast Essential Video Decoder
• IETF Internet Draft
• * xvc
• ** Divideon's reference implementation
• * Thor
• ** Cisco's reference implementation
• SMPTE standards:
• * VC-1
• ** FFmpeg
• ** NVDEC
• * Dirac
• ** Schrödinger
• ** dirac-research
• ** FFmpeg
• Alliance for Open Media
• * AV1
• ** libaom
• ** SVT-AV1
• ** rav1e
• ** dav1d
• ** libgav1
• ** NVDEC
• Xiph.Org Foundation
• * Daala
• ** libdaala
• * Theora
• ** FFmpeg
• ** libtheora
• Apple Video
• * QuickTime
• * FFmpeg
• Blackbird FORscene video codec
• Firebird Original FORscene video codec
• Digital Video Interactive standards:
• * RTV 2.1
• ** FFmpeg
• * PLV
• ** ActionMedia II driver
• Indeo 3/4/5
• * FFmpeg
• Microsoft Video 1
• * FFmpeg
• Open Media Commons standards:
• * OMS Video
• On2 Technologies TrueMotion VP3/VP4, VP5, VP6, VP7; under the name The Duck Corporation: TrueMotion S, TrueMotion 2, TrueMotion RT 2.0
• * FFmpeg
• RealVideo 1, G2, 8, 9 and 10
• * FFmpeg
• * RealMedia HD SDK
• RealVideo Fractal Codec
• * FFmpeg
• RealMedia HD
• * RealMedia HD SDK
• * FFmpeg
• Snow Wavelet Codec
• Sorenson Video, Sorenson Spark
• * FFmpeg
• VP9 by Google; VP10 was not released and instead was integrated into AV1
• * libvpx
• * FFmpeg
• * NVDEC
• Windows Media Video
• * WAX
• * FFmpeg
• Guobiao standards
• * Audio Video Standard (AVS)
• ** AVS1-P2 - used in China Blue High-definition Disc.
• *** FFmpeg
• ** AVS1-P7
• ** AVS2-P2
• *** uAVS2 Encoder
• *** xavs2
• *** davs2
• ** AVS3-P2
• *** uavs3e
• *** uavs3d

AI-based / AI-enhanced video codecs

• AIVC
• Deep Render codec
• MPAI
• * AI-Enhanced Video Coding
• * AI-based End-to-End Video Coding

Scalable / Layered

• ITU-T/ISO/IEC standards:
• * Scalable Video Coding
• * Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding
• * Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding
• ** LCEVC Decoder SDK
• ** V-Nova LCEVC SDK
• SMPTE standards
• * VC-4 Layered Video Extension

Intra-frame-only

• Motion JPEG
• * FFmpeg
• * Morgan Multimedia M-JPEG
• * Pegasus PICVideo M-JPEG
• * MainConcept M-JPEG
• ISO/IEC standard
• * Motion JPEG 2000
• ** libopenjpeg
• ** FFmpeg
• ** Morgan Multimedia M-JPEG2000
• ** Morgan Multimedia dcpPlayer
• * JPEG XS Lightweight Low latency video codec
• ** intoPIX fastTICO-XS
• * DV
• ** FFmpeg
• * MPEG-4 SStP
• ** FFmpeg
• * Motion JPEG XR
• * Animated JPEG XL
• ** libjxl
• IETF Internet Draft
• * Advanced Professional Video
• ** OpenAPV
• ** FFmpeg
• Apple ProRes 422/4444
• * FFmpeg
• Apple Intermediate Codec
• * FFmpeg
• Apple Pixlet
• * FFmpeg
• AVC-Intra
• * x264
• * FFmpeg
• AVC-Ultra – a subset of MPEG-4 AVC Hi444PP profile
• XAVC-I
• CineForm HD
• * CineForm-SDK – developed by GoPro
• * FFmpeg
• SMPTE standard
• * VC-2 SMPTE standard
• ** Schrödinger
• ** dirac-research
• ** VC-2 Reference Encoder and Decoder – developed by BBC
• ** FFmpeg
• * VC-3 SMPTE standard
• ** Avid DNxHD
• ** FFmpeg
• * VC-5 SMPTE standard
• * VC-6 SMPTE standard
• ** V-Nova VC-6 SDK
• Grass Valley HQ/HQA/HQX
• * Grass Valley Codec Option
• * FFmpeg
• NewTek NT25
• NewTek SpeedHQ - used in Network Device Interface protocol
• * NewTek Codec
• * FFmpeg

Stereoscopic 3D / Multiview

• Multiview Video Coding
• Multiview High Efficiency Video Coding
• * MainConcept MV-HEVC Encoder add-on
• * FFmpeg
• * x265 v4.0 or later
• * NVENC

Security and surveillance cameras

• Guobiao standards
• * AVS-S-P2
• * SVAC
• Infinity CCTV Codec
• * FFmpeg

CD-ROM or CD-related video codecs

• CDXL codec
• * FFmpeg
• Cinepak
• * FFmpeg
• Photo CD codec
• * FFmpeg
• MotionPixels - used in MovieCD
• * FFmpeg
• CD+G codec
• * FFmpeg
• * VLC
• CD+EG codec

Network video codecs

• SMPTE RDD
• * LLVC - used in Networked Media Interface
• HEVC-SCC
• * x265 v4.0 or later
• * FFmpeg
• ZRLE - used by VNC
• Sun Microsystems's CellB video - used in Solaris's SunVideo Plus and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's vic
• Xerox PARC's Network Video - used in Xerox's nv and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's vic
• CU-SeeMe video codec
• GoToMeeting codec
• * FFmpeg
• Microsoft
• * RemoteFX codec
• * NSCodec Bitmap Codec

Screen capture video codecs

• Microsoft Camcorder Video - used in Microsoft Office 97's Microsoft Camcorder
• VMnc VMware screen codec - used by VMware Workstation
• * vmnc.dll
• * FFmpeg

Bayer/Compressed RAW video codecs

• CinemaDNG
• Redcode RAW – a modified version of JPEG 2000
• * libredcode
• ArriRaw
• Cineform RAW
• * CineForm-SDK
• Blackmagic RAW
• * Blackmagic RAW SDK
• Cintel RAW
• * FFmpeg
• Apple ProRes RAW
• * FFmpeg
• intoPIX TICO RAW
• * intoPIX fastTICO-RAW SDK & TICO-RAW FPGA/ASIC libraries
• Canon CRX - used in Canon Cinema Raw Light movie
• * Canon RAW Plugin for Avid Media Access
• * LibRaw
• Sony X-OCN

Video games

• Bink Video, Smacker video
• * FFmpeg
• * libavcodec
• Nintendo Mobiclip video codec
• * FFmpeg
• CRI Sofdec codec - a MPEG variant with 11-bit DC and color space correction; used in Sofdec middleware
• CRI P256 - used in Sofdec middleware for Nintendo DS
• Indeo Video Interactive - used in PC games for Microsoft Windows
• * FFmpeg
• * Intel Indeo Video

Real-time

• RivaTuner video codec
• * FFmpeg
• Hap/Hap Alpha/Hap Q
• * VIDVOX hap codec
• * FFmpeg
• DXV Codec
• * Resolume DXV Codec
• * FFmpeg
• NotchLC
• * FFmpeg
• VESA Display Stream Compression
• VESA Display Compression-M