Linux Sound Programming

©  Jan Newmarch 2017

Jan Newmarch, Linux Sound Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2496-0_3

3. Sound Codecs and File Formats

Jan Newmarch¹ 

(1)Oakleigh, Victoria, Australia

There are many different ways of representing sound data. Some of these involve compressing the data, which may or may not lose information. Data can be stored in the file system or transmitted across the network, which raises additional issues. This chapter considers the major sound codecs and container formats.

Overview

Audio and video data needs to be represented in digital format to be used by a computer. Audio and video data contains an enormous amount of information, so digital representations of this data can occupy huge amounts of space. Consequently, computer scientists have ...