Technical Description
The ADX specification is not freely available, however the most important elements of the structure have been reverse engineered and documented in various places on the web. The information here may be incomplete but should be sufficient to build a working codec or transcoder.
As a side note, the AFS archive files that ADXs are sometimes packed in are a simple variant of a tarball which uses numerical indices to identify the contents rather than names. Source code for an extractor can be found in the ADX archive at.
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