software to get streaming
Welty, Richard
richard.welty at bankofamerica.com
Tue Nov 1 16:36:35 UTC 2005
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
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