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authorgpoirier <gpoirier@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2005-09-19 22:29:36 +0000
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Document lavc audio codecs
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@@ -2221,7 +2221,7 @@ You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date):
<informaltable frame="all">
<tgroup cols="2">
<thead>
-<row><entry>Codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
+<row><entry>Video codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row><entry>mjpeg</entry><entry>
@@ -2290,6 +2290,47 @@ You can encode to the following codecs (more or less up to date):
The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
<literal>vcodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4</option>
+
+
+<informaltable frame="all">
+<tgroup cols="2">
+<thead>
+<row><entry>Audio codec name</entry><entry>Description</entry></row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry>mp2</entry>
+ <entry>MPEG Layer 2</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>ac3</entry>
+ <entry>AC3, aka Dolby Digital</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>adpcm_ima_wav</entry>
+ <entry>IMA Adaptive PCM (4bits per sample, 4:1 compression)</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>sonic</entry>
+ <entry>Experimental lossy/lossless codec</entry>
+ </row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</informaltable>
+
+The first column contains the codec names that should be passed after the
+<literal>acodec</literal> config, like: <option>-lavcopts acodec=ac3</option>
+</para>
+
+<para>
+ Contrary to <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem>'s video
+ codecs, its audio codecs do not make a wise usage of the bits they are
+ been given as they lack some minimal psychoacoustic model (if at all)
+ which most other codec implementations feature.
+ However, note that all these audio codecs are very fast and work
+ out-of-the-box everywhere <application>MEncoder</application> has been
+ compiled with <systemitem class="library">libavcodec</systemitem> (which
+ is the case most of time), and do not depend on external libraries.
</para>
<informalexample>