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''See Also the [http://www.videolan.org/doc/vlc-user-guide/en/ch02.html Official documentation: list of codecs]''

''For more information of codecs in general, look ar [[wikipedia:Codecs|wikipedia]] and [http://wiki.multimedia.cx wiki.multimedia.cx].''

Codec is short for coder/decoder.
For portability to almost all decoders, we recommend
using the [[MPEG-1]] standard of vcodec=mp1v, acodec=mpga, and mux=mpeg1.

To save a file in a different codec, you can use the transcoding [[wizard]] or [[transcode]] from the [[command prompt]] with a command like this:
:vlc file --sout='#transcode{vcodec=''mp1v'', vb=''1024'', acodec=''mpga'', ab=''128''}:std{access=file, mux=''mpeg1'', url=''C:\file_name.mpg''}'


==Video Codecs==
Use the "name" part in you vcodec=... commands

{|
| '''''name'''''
| ''description''
|-
| '''mp1v'''
| [[MPEG-1]] Video - recommended for portability
|-
| '''mp2v'''
| [[MPEG-2]] Video - used in DVDs
|-
| '''mp4v'''
| [[MPEG-4]] Video
|-
| '''SVQ1'''
| [[Sorenson Video]] v1
|-
| '''SVQ3'''
| Sorenson Video v3
|-
| '''WMV1'''
| [[Windows Media Video]] v1
|-
| '''WMV2'''
| Windows Media Video v2
|-
| WMV3
| Windows Media Video v3 / VC9 ([[Common_Problems#WMV_files|unsupported]])
|-
| '''DVSD'''
| [[Digital Video]]
|-
| '''MJPG'''
| [[MJPEG]]
|-
| '''H263'''
| [[H263]]
|-
| '''h264'''
| [[H264]]
|-
| '''theo'''
| [[Theora]]
|-
| '''IV20'''
| [[Indeo Video]]
|-
| '''RV10'''
| [[Real Media Video]]
|-
| '''cvid'''
| [[Cinepak]]
|-
| '''VP31'''
| [[On2 VP]]
|-
| '''FLV1'''
| [[Flash Video]]
|-
| '''CYUV'''
| [[Creative YUV]]
|-
| '''HFYU'''
| [[Huffman YUV]]
|-
| '''MSVC'''
| [[Microsoft]] Video v1
|-
| '''MRLE'''
| Microsoft [[RLE]] Video
|-
| '''AASC'''
| [[Autodesc]] RLE Video
|-
| '''FLIC'''
| [[FLIC]] video
|-
| '''QPEG'''
| [[QPEG]] Video
|}

==Audio Codecs==
Use the "name" part in you acodec=... commands

{|
| '''''name'''''
| ''description''
|-
| '''mpga'''
| [[MPEG audio]] (recommended for portability)
|-
| '''mp3'''
| [[MP3 audio|MPEG Layer 3 audio]]<!-- - see also [[How To/Create an MP3]] -->
|- 
| '''mp4a'''
| [[MP4 audio]]
|-
| '''a52''' or '''ac3'''
| [[Dolby Digital]] ([[A52]] or [[AC3]])
|-
|
| [[DTS]]
|-
| '''vorb'''
| [[Vorbis]]
|-
| '''spx'''
| [[ Speex]]
|-
| 
| [[AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)]]
|-
|
| [[Windows Media Audio]]
|-
| 
| [[DV Audio]]
|-
| '''flac''' or '''fl32'''
| [[FLAC]]
|-
|
| [[LPCM]]
|-
|
| [[ADPCM]]
|-
|
| [[AMR]]
|-
|
| [[QuickTime Audio]]
|-
|
| [[Real Audio]]
|-
|
| [[MACE]]
|-
|
| [[MusePack]]
|}

==Subtitle Codecs==
{|
|-
| '''Chaoji VCD (CVD)'''
| [http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/manuals/0.7/cvd-subtitles.html CVD (Chaoji VCD) Subtitle Information]
|-
| '''SVCD (Overlay Graphics)'''
| [http://www.vcdimager.org/pub/vcdimager/manuals/0.7/svcd-ogt-subtitles.html SVCD Subtitle (OGT) Information]
|}

== Muxers ==
Use the "name" part in you mux=... commands

{|
| '''''name'''''
| ''description''
|-
| '''ts'''
| [[MPEG-TS|MPEG Transport Stream]], primarily used for streaming MPEG
|-
| '''ps'''
| [[MPEG-PS|MPEG Program Stream]], primarily used for saving MPEG data to disk
|-
| '''avi'''
| [[AVI]]
|-
| '''mp4'''
| [[MPEG-4]]
|-
| '''asf'''
| [[ASF]]
|-
| '''dummy'''
| [[dummy]] output, can be used in creation of [[MP3]] files.
|-
| '''ogg'''
| [http://www.xiph.org/ Xiph.org's] [[ogg]] container format.  Can contain audio, video, and metadata.
|}

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