Gilboa Davara responds to Gerhard Magnus: >In most cases, codecs are software pieces that take a video/audio >stream, and create the output audio/video out of it. >In short, if you want to play a media player stream you need the >appropriate software library to decompress it and turn it back into the >original video/audio. On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 06:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > A technical question: what are codecs? Codec is short for Coder-Decoder. for a given media format, there are often multiple encodings available, each requiring a different codec. it's one reason why video is such a pain in the neck. richard
