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