Video Codecs

A video codec is software that enables video compression and/or decompression for digital video. The compression usually uses lossy data compression, so comparisons based on file size, picture quality, ability to playback on a wide variety of machines and on and on are attributes that can measure a video codec's usefulness.

Once digital video became possible, the race to supply the market with solutions was on. A whole bunch of developers began working on different ways to capture and...