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Encyclopedia > Au file format

The Au file format is a simple audio file format that consists of a header of 6 32-bit words and then the data (high-order byte comes first). The format was introduced by Sun Microsystems. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... BIT is an acronym for: Bangalore Institute of Technology Bilateral Investment Treaty Bhilai Institute of Technology - Durg Birla Institute of Technology - Mesra Battles in Time (Doctor Who magazine) Category: ... Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...

32 bit word field Description/Content Hexadecimal numbers in C notation
0 magic number the value 0x2e736e64 (four ASCII characters ".snd")
1 data offset the offset to the data in bytes. The minimum valid number is 24 (decimal).
2 data size data size in bytes. If unknown, the value 0xffffffff should be used.
3 encoding Data encoding format:
4 sample rate the number of samples/second (e.g., 8000)
5 channels the number of interleaved channels (e.g., 1 for mono, 2 for stereo, more channels possible but may not be supported by all readers)


The type of encoding depends on the value of the 'encoding' field (word 3 of the header). Formats 2–7 are uncompressed PCM, therefore lossless. Formats 23–36 are ADPCM, which is a lossy, roughly 4:1 compression. Formats 1 and 27 are μ-law and A-law, respectively, both lossy. Several of the others are DSP commands or data, designed to be processed by the NeXT MusicKit software. In mathematics and computer science, base-16, hexadecimal, or simply hex, is a numeral system with a radix or base of 16 usually written using the symbols 0–9 and A–F or a–f. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of C Programming The C programming language (often, just C) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie for use on the Unix operating system. ... In computer programming, a magic number is a special constant used for some specific purpose. ... A byte is commonly used as a unit of storage measurement in computers, regardless of the type of data being stored. ... In telecommunication, a mu-law algorithm (μ-law) is a standard analog signal compression or companding algorithm, used in digital communications systems of the North American and Japanese digital hierarchies, to optimize (in other words, modify) the dynamic range of an audio analog signal prior to digitizing. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... The IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is the most widely-used standard for floating-point computation, and is followed by many CPU and FPU implementations. ... The IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is the most widely-used standard for floating-point computation, and is followed by many CPU and FPU implementations. ... // Introduction In computing, a fixed-point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits before and after the radix point (e. ... // Introduction In computing, a fixed-point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits before and after the radix point (e. ... // Introduction In computing, a fixed-point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits before and after the radix point (e. ... // Introduction In computing, a fixed-point number representation is a real data type for a number that has a fixed number of digits before and after the radix point (e. ... In telecommunication, a mu-law algorithm (μ-law) is a standard analog signal compression or companding algorithm, used in digital communications systems of the North American and Japanese digital hierarchies, to optimize (in other words, modify) the dynamic range of an audio analog signal prior to digitizing. ... G.726 is ITU-T speech codec operating at bit rates of 16-40 kbit/s. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... G.722 is a ITU-T standard wideband speech codec operating at 32-64 kbit/s. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ... An a-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm, used in European digital communications systems to optimize, modify, the dynamic range of an analog signal for digitizing. ... PCM is an initialism which can have different meanings: Phase Change Material Pulse-code modulation, a way to digitally encode signals representing sound and their video counterparts Potential Cancer Marker Communist Party of Mexico Plug Compatible Manufacturer Power-train control module, a computer in a car which controls the car... Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allow the original data to be reconstructed exactly from the compressed data. ... In telecommunication, a mu-law algorithm (μ-law) is a standard analog signal compression or companding algorithm, used in digital communications systems of the North American and Japanese digital hierarchies, to optimize, , modify, the dynamic range of an audio analog signal prior to digitizing. ... An a-law algorithm is a standard companding algorithm, used in European digital communications systems to optimize, modify, the dynamic range of an analog signal for digitizing. ... Digital signal processing (DSP) is the study of signals in a digital representation and the processing methods of these signals. ... NeXT was a computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured two computer workstations during its existence, the NeXTcube and NeXTstation. ...


External links

  • Sun .au sound file format
  • Demo .au output function



Multimedia compression formats at glance
Video compression formats
ISO/IEC: MPEG-1 | MPEG-2 | MPEG-4 | MPEG-4/AVC | ITU-T: H.261 | H.262 | H.263 | H.264
SMPTE: VC-1
Others: VP7 | RealVideo | WMV | Indeo | MJPEG | Theora | Dirac
Audio compression formats
ISO/IEC MPEG: MPEG-1 Layer III (known as MP3) | MPEG-1 Layer II | AAC | HE-AAC
ITU-T: G.711 | G.722 | G.722.1 | G.722.2 | G.723 | G.723.1 | G.726 | G.729 | G.729a
Others: FLAC | iLBC | RealAudio | WMA | Speex | Vorbis | ATRAC3 | AC3 | AIFF
Image compression formats
ISO/IEC/ITU-T: JPEG | JPEG 2000 | JPEG-LS | JBIG | JBIG2
Others: GIF | PNG | TIFF | PCX | TGA | BMP | WMP | ILBM
Media container formats
AU | AVI | ASF | WAV | MP4 | Ogg | Ogg Media | Matroska | QuickTime | RealMedia | 3GP


 
 

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