Introduction

Audio / Video coding Blocks (AVBlocks) is a cross-platform Software Development Kit (SDK) for audio and video encoding, decoding and processing.

Supported audio codecs

• LPCM Audio
• MPEG-1 Audio and MPEG-2 Audio (Layer 1, 2 and 3)
• AAC Audio (MPEG-2 Part 7 / MPEG-4 Part 3)
• Vorbis Audio
• Dolby Digital Audio (AC3) (decode only)
• Windows Media Audio (decode only)
• Speech Audio / Voice Audio (G.711 / G.726)

Supported video codecs

• High Efficiency Video Coding (H.265 / HEVC / MPEG-H Part 2)
• Advanced Video Coding (H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC / MPEG-4 Part 10)
• WebM Video (Google VP8)
• VC-1 Video
• MPEG-4 Video (MPEG-4 Part 2)
• MJPEG Video (decode only)
• Windows Media Video
• Mobile Video (H.263 / 3GPP / 3GPP2)
• MPEG-2 Video (H.262 / MPEG-2 Part)
• MPEG-1 Video (MPEG-1 Part 2)
• H.261 Video

Supported file formats

• Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)
• Advanced Systems Format (ASF / WMA / WMV)
• MPEG-1 Part 1 (MPEG Systems / MPG)
• MPEG-2 Part 1 (MPEG-2 Program Stream / MPEG-PS)
• MPEG-2 Part 1 (MPEG-2 Transport Stream / MPEG-TS / MTS / M2TS)
• MPEG-4 Part 14 (M4A / MP4)
• Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE / WAV)
• WebM Container Format (WEBM)

Platforms

• Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux (Ubuntu)

Programming languages

• C++ SDK
• .NET SDK (C# - Visual Basic - F#)

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