Jun14
What Is A Video Codec?
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 convert video.
The "grail" of video codec's is the ablility to compress a source file to as small size as possible while retaining quality and playback on as wide a variety of machines as possible.
Do all that and make the conversion process simple so it doesn't take forever or consume excess computer resources and you've got a winning video codec.
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