CAVS to SOU Converter

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Fast Audio Ripping

Extracting SOU from CAVS is faster than full video conversion — our servers focus on the audio stream and skip video processing.

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No extensions, plugins, or downloads required. Everything runs in your web browser — just visit the page and start converting.

Adjustable Settings

Fine-tune audio parameters — codec, bitrate, and quality — before converting to tailor the output precisely.

How to convert CAVS to SOU

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose sou or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your sou file right afterwards

About formats

CAVS (Chinese Audio Video Standard) is a video compression standard developed by the Audio Video Coding Standard Workgroup of China and adopted as a national standard (GB/T 20090.2) in February 2006. The project began in 2002 with the aim of creating an independent compression technology that could serve the massive broadcasting and multimedia infrastructure in China without relying on foreign-licensed codecs. CAVS, also referred to as AVS1, achieves compression efficiency comparable to H.264/AVC while utilizing a simpler patent framework with significantly lower licensing costs. The standard supports video resolutions from standard definition up to high definition, making it suitable for both terrestrial digital television broadcasting and broadband streaming. Key technical features include 8x8 block transforms, multiple prediction modes, and a loop filter designed to reduce blocking artifacts at low bit rates. The Chinese government endorsed CAVS as the mandatory compression standard for the national digital TV broadcasting system, ensuring broad deployment across set-top boxes and television receivers in the country. While CAVS has limited international adoption compared to H.264 or HEVC, its significance lies in serving one of the largest media markets in the world and demonstrating a viable national alternative to globally dominant video coding standards.
Initial release: February 2006
SOU is a raw audio format designation that functions as an alias for unsigned 8-bit PCM data (u8) in the SoX audio processing framework. Files with the .sou extension contain headerless, uncompressed audio samples stored as unsigned 8-bit integers — each byte represents a single amplitude value from 0 to 255, with 128 as the silence midpoint. Because there is no header, playback parameters such as sample rate and channel count must be specified externally. The default assumption is typically mono at 8000 Hz, though the data can represent any rate the recording hardware supported. The u8 encoding that SOU aliases is one of the simplest possible digital audio representations, predating structured audio containers like WAV and AIFF. Raw unsigned PCM was commonly produced by early sound cards and digitizers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when storage constraints and limited processing power made headerless formats a practical choice. One advantage is absolute simplicity: SOU files can be read by any program capable of basic file I/O, with no parsing of container structures or metadata decoding required — useful for embedded systems, hardware diagnostics, and educational contexts where audio fundamentals are being explored. The format's minimal overhead also means that conversion to any modern container is lossless and instantaneous, since the raw PCM samples can be wrapped in a WAV or AIFF header without any transcoding.
Developer: SoX Contributors
Initial release: 1991

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the benefit of converting CAVS to SOU?

Extracting audio from a CAVS video into SOU lets you keep just the soundtrack — ideal for listening without the video overhead.

What program opens SOU files?

Audio editors and format conversion tools handle SOU raw sound data files.

Will the audio quality match the original?

You can set the output bitrate to match or exceed the original audio quality. Higher settings preserve more detail from the CAVS source.

How fast is the audio extraction?

Audio extraction is quicker than full video conversion since only the sound track is processed. Most files are done within seconds.

Can I choose the audio bitrate?

Yes. Adjust the bitrate, sample rate, and channel count before converting to get the SOU quality that suits your listening needs.