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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Opus (audio format) (redirect from Opus codec)
"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Advanced Audio Coding (redirect from Advanced Audio Codec)
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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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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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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FLAC (redirect from Free lossless audio codec)
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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WebM (section Streaming capabilities)
— 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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Sorenson Media (redirect from Sorenson codec)
ultimately acquired from Utah State University. The company first announced its codec (compression and decompression tool) at a developer’s preview at MacWorld...
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Advanced Systems Format (redirect from Advanced Streaming Formats)
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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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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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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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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MP4 file format (section Data streams)
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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