audio codec
Lead Vorbis Audio Codec
A DirectShow® filter for compressing and decompressing audio data using the Vorbis compression algorithm more>>
Compared to MP3 compressed audio files, Vorbis based compression produces audio files that maintain a higher sound quality and/or a smaller compressed size, depending on the needs of the user. For example, the user has the option of keeping their digital music collection at the same sound quality level as MP3, but requiring significantly less disk space. Or, a user can commit the same amount of storage (disk space) as their MP3 based files, however their digital music will have higher quality sound.
Vinyl Audio Codec 7.00 b
This driver supports all VIA southbridges with integrated sound.div3 fourcc more>> Codecs supported: This driver supports all VIA southbridges with integrated sound plus several audio codecs as below.div3 codec downloadcodec amv
DOS sound: This driver supports DOS sound for VIA VT82C686A/VT82C686B/VT8231 southbridges only. The VIAAUDIO.COM file mentioned in the Readme concerning DOS sound can be obtained from this old audio driver package. It is no longer supplied in the Vinyl_AudioCodec driver package.
Release history: This combination driver was first published on 24 June 2002. Prior to 24 June 2002, there was driver 74mu170a for VT8233/VT8233A/VT8233C and driver 68MU220b for VT686A, 686B & VT8321. The "combo" driver combined those two drivers into the one package and added support for the (at the time) new VT8235 southbridge. Further improvements have been made in subsequent releases, including adding support for more codecs and the driver package is now called Vinyl_AudioCodec.
Special note: VIA advises that where possible, users should install onboard sound drivers provided by their motherboard manufacturer.<<less

AC'97 Audio Codecs A4.06
AC97 Audio Codecs is an impressive as well as beneficial 18-bit, full duplex AC97 2.2 compatible stereo audio CODEC designed for PC multimedia systems more>>
AC'97 Audio Codecs A4.06 is an impressive as well as beneficial 18-bit, full duplex AC'97 2.2 compatible stereo audio CODEC designed for PC multimedia systems, including host/soft audio and AMR/CNR based designs. The ALC650 incorporates proprietary converter technology to achieve a high SNR, greater than 90 dB.
The ALC650 AC'97 CODEC supports multiple CODEC extensions with independent variable sampling rates and built-in 3D effects. The ALC650 CODEC provides three pairs of stereo outputs with independent volume controls, a mono output, and multiple stereo and mono inputs, along with flexible mixing, gain and mute functions to provide a complete integrated audio solution for PCs.
Major Features:
- High-performance CODEC with high S/N ratio (>90 dB)
- 18-bit ADC and 20-bit DAC resolution
- Compliant with AC'97 2.2 specifications
- 18-bit stereo full-duplex CODEC with independent and variable sampling rate
- 4 analog line-level stereo inputs with 5-bit volume control: LINE_IN, CD, VIDEO, AUX
- 2 analog line-level mono inputs: PC_BEEP, PHONE_IN
- Mono output with 5-bit volume control
- Stereo output with 5-bit volume control
- 6 channel slot selectable DAC output for multi-channel applications
- 2 MIC inputs, which are software selectable
- Power management capabilities
- 3D Stereo enhancement
- Embedded 50mW/20ohm OP at front LINE output
- External amplifier power down capability
- Digital S/PDIF output
- Digital S/PDIF input (ALC650 Rev. E or later)
- No external crystal/clock required
- Supports 1 general purpose I/O pin
- Power supply: digital: 3.3V; analog: 5V/3.3V
- Standard 48-pin LQFP package
Sony ATRAC3 Audio Codec 0.98
ATRAC3 achieves twice the data compression rate of ATRAC with virtually no loss in sound quality and reduces the size of audio d more>>
The highest bit rate supported by Atrac3 is 132 kbps (which they say is superior to MP3 128 kbps) and supplies a decent quality.
For the best quality ATRAC3 files, you must convert the tracks directly from the audio CD.
ATRAC3 is a compression technology based on Sony?s ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) technology that originated with and is supported by MiniDisc. ATRAC3 achieves twice the data compression rate of ATRAC with virtually no loss in sound quality and reduces the size of audio data to 1/10 of the original audio CD source.
The audio compression technologies used by Sony will analyze the digital audio data and reduce its size by applying the newest digital audio technologies.
Compressing audio data provides real benefits:
- Drastically minimize the required physical size of recording media while enabling increased music storage.
- Smaller file sizes means a reduction in audio data transmission time.
How to install Sony ATRAC3 Audio Codec :
- Unarchive atrac3.rar, right-click on atrac3.inf file and choose Install.
- You may encounter a prompt saying: "The software you are installing for this hardware... has not passed Windows Logo testing..."; click on the Continue Anyway button.
- Then check the installed codec. See Checking Installed VIDEO and AUDIO Codecs In Windows XP guide.
Sony ATRAC3 Audio Codec gives you a free tool specially designed for portable audio players. Sony ATRAC3 Audio Codec 0.98 -. Sony ATRAC3DivX MPEG-4 Audio Codec 4.02
Some movies are created with WMA sound format which is unrecognizable by the mp3 codecs of DivX versions higher than 3 more>>
Some movies are created with WMA sound format which is unrecognizable by the mp3 codecs of DivX versions higher than 3. In such cases your player starts searching the net for the appropriate codec and never finds it because there is no such available for download.
The only available appropriate DivX audio codec comes with the DivX 3.11 alpha codec installation pack (other repacks also) - DivXa32.acm. So now youve got an unique DivX 3.11 Alpha repack that will install only the missing audio decompressor, will add an item in your audio compression manager (for win 9x - control panel / multimedia / devices / audio compression codecs) and also an option for uninstallation from control panel (add/remove programs).
This is an advantage over installing the whole of the DivX 3.11 pack because it installs its older video codecs which you do not need and it overwrites the registry and uninstall information which makes it impossible to uninstall DivX 3.11 Alpha and the other later DivX codec version you might have separately. This may cause some undesired behaviour of your codecs and players. All you need to do for hearing the WMA sound of your movie is to install this pack.
I hope you will enjoy it!
Note: GSpot gives the following information with this type of audio codec: divx (same as wma) (0x0161) DivX Networks
Audio Codec Sample 0.0 Alpha
Audio Codec Sample demonstrates how to create audio codec using DirectX technology more>> <<less
TTA Lossless Audio Codec 3.4.1
Lossless compressor for multichannel 8,16 and 24 bits audio data. more>>
The codec was built to offer adequate compression levels while maintaining high operation speeds.
The TTA lossless audio codec performs lossless compression on multichannel 8, 16 and 24-bit data of WAV audio files. The term "lossless" refers to the fact that such compression results in literally no data or quality loss; when decompressed, the audio file data are bit-identical to those of their originals.
Compression ratios achieved by the TTA codec vary, depending on music type, but range from 30% - 70% of the original. The TTA lossless compressed audio format supports both ID3v1 and ID3v2 information tags.
The TTA lossless audio codec allows for the storage of up to 20 audio CDs worth of music on a single DVD-R, retaining the original CD quality audio, plus detailed information in the popular ID3 tag format.
Being lossless means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.
VoxWare MetaSound Audio Codec 1.6.0.17
free VoxWare MetaSound Audio Codec more>>
It comes with a variety of mono and stereo audio formats to choose from depending on your network bandwidth.
It is also suitable for encoding mono voice-only content at extremely low bit-rates.
MetaVoice works far FAR better than MP3 and even WMA at very low bit rates. You can get very good speech quality at 2kbit/sec! (Note I said "bits" not "bytes" - you cant touch that with MP3.)
Itll do soundtrack noises pretty well too, although it can get muddy if theres too much going on.
Using the MetaSound codec and upping the bit rate to a whopping 8 or 16kbit/sec will fix this.
The best part is there are no restrictions on the Voxware codecs - you can useem in pretty much anything and theyll play.
Burr-Brown USB Audio Codec 2902 (commercial V2.6.1) 2.6.1.0
Burr-Brown USB Audio Codec 2902 (commercial more>>
Burr-Brown USB Audio Codec 2902 (commercial V2.6.1)
Realtek High Definition Audio Codec (Windows Vista) R2.15 (02/09/2009)
Update your onboard HD sound from Realtek to the latest driver release. more>>
Realtek HD audio driver package. The package includes: driver setup program, drivers for Vista 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
Version R2.15 is a maintenance release.
Realtek High Definition Audio Codec (Windows 2000/XP/2003) R2.15 (02/09/2009)
Update your onboard HD sound from Realtek to the latest driver release. more>>
Realtek HD audio driver package. The package includes: Driver setup program, WDM driver, Realtek Soundman, Realtek Sound Effect Manager.
Version R2.15 is a maintenance release.

Realtek High Definition Audio Codec (Windows 2000/XP/2003) R2.35 (08/24/2009)
The ALC268 series are 4-Channel High Definition Audio Codecs with UAA (Universal Audio Architecture), featuring two stereo DACs and two stereo ADCs. The 4 channels of DAC support stereo sound playback on the rear panel and independent stereo sound output on the front panel simultaneously (multiple streaming). The two stereo ADCs integrate two stereo and independent analog sound inputs. more>> The ALC268 series are 4-Channel High Definition Audio Codecs with UAA (Universal Audio Architecture), featuring two stereo DACs and two stereo ADCs. The 4 channels of DAC support stereo sound playback on the rear panel and independent stereo sound output on the front panel simultaneously (multiple streaming). The two stereo ADCs integrate two stereo and independent analog sound inputs.<<less
True Audio Encoder (TTA) 3.3
True Audio Encoder (TTA) - simple real-time lossless audio compressor based on adaptive prognostic filters more>>
Being "lossless" means that no data/quality is lost in the compression - when uncompressed, the data will be identical to the original.
The compression ratios of True Audio encoder depend on the type of music file being compressed, but the compression size will generally range between 30% - 70% of the original. TTA format supports both of ID3v2 and ID3v1 information tags.
Using True Audio encoder you can to store up to 20 audio CD from your collection on one single DVD-R for playback, keeping all of CD information in a popular ID3 information tags.
Main features:
- Support of 8,16,24 integer and 32-bit floating-point multichannel Wav audio files;
- Minimal system requirements;
- High compression performance;
- High speed performance;
- CRC checking;
- Corrupted data decoding;
- Simple and clean output files format with precalculated seek points table.
- Down to 30% lossless audio data compression
- Real-time encoding/decoding algorithm
- Fast operation speed and minimal system requirements
- Can be compiled and executed on several different platforms
- Free and open source code and documentation
MP4 Audio Video Encoder 1.0.0.2
Audio Video MP4 Encoder more>> Create MPEG4 video and MPEG4 audio files using DirectShow filter, which includes MPEG-4 video ASP encoder, MPEG-4 audio FAAC (Freeware Advanced Audio Codec) and ISO compliant MP4 file writer.<<less
x263 Video Codec 1.1.0
developed by Xirlink and used by certain cams to compress AVI video. more>> Another H.263 video codec, developed by Xirlink and used by certain cams to compress AVI video.<<less