• A codec is a computer hardware or software component that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal. Codec is a portmanteau of coder/decoder. In electronic...
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  • codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats, audio codecs and video codecs respectively. Many of the codecs...
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  • An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software...
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    "Steam Beta Update: SteamVR and In-Home Streaming Beta". SteamDB. Retrieved 9 December 2015. "Zwei Audio-Codecs für Echtzeit-Kommunikation im Browser"...
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  • A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video. In the context of video compression, codec is a portmanteau of encoder...
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    Xvid (redirect from Xvid codec)
    Xvid (formerly "XviD") is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 video coding standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP)....
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  • SBC, or low-complexity subband codec, is an audio subband codec specified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Advanced Audio Distribution...
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    LDAC (Lossless Digital Audio Codec) is a proprietary audio coding technology developed by Sony, which allows streaming lossy audio over Bluetooth connections...
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    AV1 (category Free video codecs)
    Roku streaming platform after a contract expired. It was later reported that Roku streaming devices do not use processors that support the AV1 codec. In...
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  • High-Definition Audio Codec (LHDC) is an audio codec technology developed by Savitech. LHDC allows high-resolution audio streaming over Bluetooth. It is...
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  • applications and streaming audio. The encoded blocks have to be encapsulated in a suitable protocol for transport, e.g. RTP. It is one of the codecs used by AIM...
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  • Α video codec is software or a device that provides encoding and decoding for digital video, and which may or may not include the use of video compression...
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  • HTTP Live Streaming (also known as HLS) is an HTTP-based adaptive bitrate streaming communications protocol developed by Apple Inc. and released in 2009...
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  • The following is a list of compression formats and related codecs. Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for...
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    Digital Audio (the AAC codec portion has become Nero AAC Codec), which is capable of encoding LC-AAC, HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 streams. The tool is a command-line...
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  • Adaptive bitrate streaming is a technique used in streaming multimedia over computer networks. While in the past most video or audio streaming technologies...
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  • LC3 (Low Complexity Communication Codec) is an audio codec specified by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) for the LE Audio audio protocol introduced...
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  • Windows Media Audio (category Audio codecs)
    Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is a proprietary technology...
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  • QuickTime Broadcaster (category Streaming software)
    stream live video and audio over a network in any QuickTime supported streaming codec. Most QuickTime software was functionally defunct as of the release...
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  • compression. Codec, a hardware device or computer software used for coding and decoding transformations of data or signal media streams Codec, a fictional...
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    VP9 (redirect from VP9 codec)
    (PDF). Streaming Learning Center. Archived (PDF) from the original on 10 June 2017. Retrieved 22 May 2017. Jan Ozer, April 2015: The Great UHD Codec Debate:...
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    FLAC (/flæk/; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and...
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  • VC-1 (redirect from Video Codec 1)
    Media Video 9 (WMV3) codec implements the Simple and Main modes of the VC-1 codec standard, providing high-quality video for streaming and downloading. "It...
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  • — a streaming media server traditionally used for audio streaming — has supported live video streaming using the WebM format (VP8/VP9 video codecs with...
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    DivX (redirect from Divx codec)
    video codec products developed by DivX, LLC. There are three DivX codecs: the original MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec, the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC DivX Plus HD codec and...
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  • Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media...
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  • Theora (redirect from Theora codec)
    including the Vorbis audio format and the Ogg container. The libtheora video codec is the reference implementation of the Theora video compression format developed...
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    files through private streams. A separate hint track is used to include streaming information in the file. The registered codecs for MPEG-4 Part 12-based...
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  • of which has been Vorbis, an open and freely licensed audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented WMA, MP3 and AAC. As of 2013, development...
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  • Windows Media Video (category Video codecs)
    consists of three distinct codecs: the original video compression technology, known as WMV, originally designed for Internet streaming applications as a competitor...
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