RE: software to get streaming

[Welty, Richard]

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