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- FOURCCs: Unknown
- Company: Nippon TT
- Metatag format: http://www.twinvq.org/technology_format.html (Japanese)
Perceptual audio codec. The main technique used is a vector quantizer. The codebook is about 500kb in size, this results in long encoding times but fast decoding.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050304093400/http://www.webisdead.net/DOWNLOADS/-programmes/vqf/ has an SDK for Windows and Linux on the x86 platform.
http://www.mp3-tech.org/programmer/sources/refsoft990809.tgz also have code for the vqf version that made it into AAC.
http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/perflib/ipp/219611.htm?prn=y Intel shares some code for AAC flavored vqf.
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/projects/linux/vqfplugin/ hosts a native VQF plugin for XMMS