
BWF files include a standardized timestamp reference which allows for easy synchronization with a separate picture element. This is the primary recording format used in many professional audio workstations in the television and film industry. See European Broadcasting Union: Specification of the Broadcast Wave Format (EBU Technical document 3285, July 1997). Among other enhancements, BWF allows more robust metadata to be stored in the file. Since WAV and AIFF are widely supported and can store LPCM, they are suitable file formats for storing and archiving an original recording.īWF (Broadcast Wave Format) is a standard audio format created by the European Broadcasting Union as a successor to WAV. WAV and AIFF are designed to store a wide variety of audio formats, lossless and lossy they just add a small, metadata-containing header before the audio data to declare the format of the audio data, such as LPCM with a particular sample rate, bit depth, endianness and number of channels. The Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) format is based on the Interchange File Format (IFF), and the WAV format is based on the similar Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). Although LPCM can be stored on a computer as a raw audio format, it is usually stored in a.

One major uncompressed audio format, LPCM, is the same variety of PCM as used in Compact Disc Digital Audio and is the format most commonly accepted by low level audio APIs and D/A converter hardware. See also: Raw audio format and Uncompressed video



It is important to distinguish between the audio coding format, the container containing the raw audio data, and an audio codec.
