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Document lavc audio codecs
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date Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:29:36 +0000
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2219 You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date): 2219 You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date):
2220 2220
2221 <informaltable frame="all"> 2221 <informaltable frame="all">
2222 <tgroup cols="2"> 2222 <tgroup cols="2">
2223 <thead> 2223 <thead>
2224 <row><entry>Codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row> 2224 <row><entry>Video codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
2225 </thead> 2225 </thead>
2226 <tbody> 2226 <tbody>
2227 <row><entry>mjpeg</entry><entry> 2227 <row><entry>mjpeg</entry><entry>
2228 Motion JPEG 2228 Motion JPEG
2229 </entry></row> 2229 </entry></row>
2288 </tgroup> 2288 </tgroup>
2289 </informaltable> 2289 </informaltable>
2290 2290
2291 The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the 2291 The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
2292 <literal>vcodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4</option> 2292 <literal>vcodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4</option>
2293
2294
2295 <informaltable frame="all">
2296 <tgroup cols="2">
2297 <thead>
2298 <row><entry>Audio codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
2299 </thead>
2300 <tbody>
2301 <row>
2302 <entry>mp2</entry>
2303 <entry>MPEG Layer 2</entry>
2304 </row>
2305 <row>
2306 <entry>ac3</entry>
2307 <entry>AC3, aka Dolby Digital</entry>
2308 </row>
2309 <row>
2310 <entry>adpcm_ima_wav</entry>
2311 <entry>IMA Adaptive PCM (4bits per sample, 4:1 compression)</entry>
2312 </row>
2313 <row>
2314 <entry>sonic</entry>
2315 <entry>Experimental lossy/lossless codec</entry>
2316 </row>
2317 </tbody>
2318 </tgroup>
2319 </informaltable>
2320
2321 The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
2322 <literal>acodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts acodec=ac3</option>
2323 </para>
2324
2325 <para>
2326 Contrary to <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s video
2327 codecs, its audio codecs do not make a wise usage of the bits they are
2328 been given as they lack some minimal psychoacoustic model (if at all)
2329 which most other codec implementations feature.
2330 However, note that all these audio codecs are very fast and work
2331 out-of-the-box everywhere <application>MEncoder</application> has been
2332 compiled with <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> (which
2333 is the case most of time), and do not depend on external libraries.
2293 </para> 2334 </para>
2294 2335
2295 <informalexample> 2336 <informalexample>
2296 <para> 2337 <para>
2297 An example, with MJPEG compression: 2338 An example, with MJPEG compression: