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AUDIO FORMATS PLAYED

Omniversal Audio format supportIf you can record it we can play itThe Start-Stop® OMNIVERSAL plays all of the
Standard .WAV, .MP3 and .WMA formats:

Cell Phone Formats (with HIPAA compliant encryption/decryption):

Start-Stop® OmniVersal plays these non-standard digital dictation formats:

Digital Recorders:

  • All Olympus Recorders: DSS format and now supports the DSS Pro [DS2] format (e.g.,DM-10, DM20, DS-2, DS-330, DS-2200, DS-2300, DS-3300, DS-4000, DM-620, DS-3400, DS-3500, DS-5000 DS-5000iD, DS-7000, DS-9500, DS-9000, LS-20M, LS-100 Recorders)
  • All Philips Digital Recorders and Speechmikes
  • Philips Speech Mike (CELP)
  • All Sony Recorders (DVF, MSV, and MP3/WMA/Wav)
  • Lanier Cquence™ M3 Mobile Digital Recorders (.DSS format)
  • Voice-It ™ Mobile Digital Recorder's .SRI format
  • Dictaphone™ Walkabout Tour™ Digital Recorder
  • UHER DH-10 Digital Recorder TrueSpeech™
  • Sanyo Digital Recorders

All .WAV Audio formats (from internet, network, or local to hard drive) that are playable by your Windows PC. The following list is not exhaustive, but representative of the .WAV file formats supported:

  • Microsoft .WAV (PCM), WMA, Sun .AU, DSP Group's TrueSpeech Compressed .WAV, Microsoft ADPCM, GSM 6.1, u-Law, A-Law, at all amplitudes (4-8-16 bit) and sampling frequencies (8 KHz to 44 KHZ) for mono and stereo.

Also Plays:

  • All Olympus Recorders (DSS Pro (DS2)/DSS/WMA/MP3/WAV) except DS-2400 and DS-2500
  • All Sony Recorders (MSV, DVF, WAV/MP3/WMA)
  • All Philips Digital Recorders (SP mode)
  • Philips Speechmike CELP
  • ExpressScribe DCT
  • Nice AUD
  • Speex (.txt)
  • OGG Speex
  • Sanyo Digital Recorder
  • ProCat™
  • BCB Play All™ TrueSpeech™ files with non-standard embedded headers
  • Lanier Digital Recorders
  • DIVX audio
  • UHER DH-10 TrueSpeech
  • Dialogic™ .VOX format (used in many dictation systems and computerized telephony systems)
  • VoiceAge ACELP
  • Bitescrybe VOX
  • Specialty VOX Formats, including separate selections for "Bitescrybe" 8 KHz PCM Mu-Law
  • BVP Computers
  • Digital Voice ™
  • Dictaphone ™ (VOX 8KHz sample rate, 4-bit ADPCM, with headers)
  • Dictaphone™ Digital Express™ Dictaphone Boomerang™ and .AUD files
  • Crescendo™ and DVIPS™ (VOX 6KHz sample rate, 4-bit, ADPCM).
  • Also plays Mu-law and A-Law (Sun™ Microsystems) .WAV files
  • as well as Creative Soundblaster™ .VOC format (Version 1.2).
  • .MP3
  • and Olympus .DSS format
  • CCITT Stereo A-Law
  • Evercom and TNetix Inmate Call Monitoring System formats
  • VAC (Value Added Corporation) Call Inmate Monitoring Format
  • SPX (Speex.org)
  • BlackBerry® .AMR audio format
  • iPhone MP3 format
  • Compact Audio Discs
  • MP2
  • AIFC
  • OGG

Newly added Audio formats:

  • .aac (Advanced Audio Coding)
  • .ac3 (AC3 Audio File Format)
  • .aif, .aiff (Audio Interchange File Format)
  • .alac (Apple Lossless Audio Codec)
  • .ape .apl (Monkey's Audio Lossless Format)
  • .asx (Microsoft's Advanced Stream Redirector File Format)
  • .caf (Core Audio Format)
  • .cda (Compact Disk Audio)
  • .das (Audio file format)
  • .ds2 (Olympus DSS Pro)
  • .dct (variable codec audio file format)
  • .dts (Digital Theater Systems Audio Format)
  • .enc (Encore)
  • .flac (Enhanced Video Object)
  • .it (Audio)
  • .m4a (MPEG-4 Audio file)
  • .mo3 (music file format)
  • .mod (Audio format)
  • .mtm (music format)
  • .ofr, .ofs (OptimFROG format)
  • .opus (Opus Audio Codec)
  • .paf (Audio format)
  • .pmc (MUSEPAK Audio format)
  • .pvf (Portable Voice Format)
  • .ra (Real Audio)
  • .rec (Voice File)
  • .s3m (Audio Format / Commodore Amiga )
  • .sf, .snd, .svx (Sound file)
  • .tak (Tom’s lossless Audio Kompressor)
  • .tta (True Audio)
  • .w64 (Sound Forge)
  • .webm (audio-video container format)
  • .wv (WavPack Audio file format)
  • .xm ("extended module" audio file type)

VIDEO FORMATS PLAYED

Some of the supported Omniversal video formatsTranscribe most any video format availableThe Start-Stop® OMNIVERSAL plays a wide array of video formats:

  • Entire DVDs - including titles and sub menus DVD Individual Video Files (.vob, ifo) Playable from DVD or by copying the individual VOB files to any other media such as a hard drive.
  • AVI Video Microsoft Audio/Video Web Streaming format (.asf)
  • Windows Media Files (.wmv, wmp, .wm) Streaming or on disk
  • Real Video-Real Media Files (.rm, .ram, .rpm, .rmm, .rnx)
  • Real Script Files (.rt, .rp, .smi, .smil)
  • Apple Quicktime (compressed and non-compressed) Video
  • Apple QuicktimeTM (.mov, .qt, .amr, .3gp2, .3g2, .3gpp)
  • MPEG Video/Media Files (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .m1v, .mp2, .mpv2, .dat, .ts .tp ) and MP4
  • Macromedia Flash (.swf)
  • DIVX Video for DVDs and other media (.divx, .vp6, .rmvb, .hdmov)
  • Bink and Smacker Dirac (.drc)
  • DirectShow Media File (.dsm, .dsv, .dsa)
  • DVD2AVI Project Files (.d2v)
  • FLIC File (.fli, .flc, .flic)
  • Indeo Video File (.ivf)
  • Matroska Media File (mkv)
  • OGG Media (.ogm)
  • RoQ Media File (.roq)

Newly added video formats:

  • .3gp (Third Generation Partnership Project)
  • .amv (a MTV Video Format)
  • .bdmv, .mpls (Blu-ray Information File Format)
  • .bvp (BlueVoda Software Format)
  • .d00 (VirtualDrive Disc Image Part File)
  • .dv (Digital Video Format)
  • .evo (Enhanced Video Object)
  • .f4v, .flv (Flash Video)
  • .g64 (security camera video)
  • .m2p, .m2t, .m2ts, .m2v, (Streaming MPEG-2 video file format)
  • .m4v, .mp4v (MPEG-4 Video file)
  • .mp2v (MPEG-2 Video file)
  • .mts (Advanced Video Coding High Definition)
  • .ogv (Ogg container format)
  • .trp (HD video transport stream)
  • .tps (Video File Format)
  • .webm (audio-video container format)

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