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The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio codecs.
General information Basic general information about the codecs: creator/company, license/price etc. 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 codec, 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 codec, one might be able to use the codec free of charge. Operating System Support Operating Systems that the codecs are available for. Technical details See also | ||||||||
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