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...

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...

codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats, audio codecs and video codecs respectively. Many of the codecs...

editing. Codecs are used in videoconferencing, streaming media, and video editing applications. Originally, in the mid-20th century, a codec was a hardware...

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows Media...

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...

specific video coding format is a video codec. Some video coding formats are documented by a detailed technical specification document known as a video coding...

The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of audio and video codecs for Microsoft Windows DirectShow that enables an operating system and its software to play...

heritage. Occasionally, it is also referred to as "the JVT codec", in reference to the Joint Video Team (JVT) organization that developed it. (Such partnership...

Xvid (formerly "XviD") is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 video coding standard, specifically MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile (ASP). It...

proprietary video and audio compression algorithms (video and audio codecs) supporting resolutions from 320×240 up to high definition video. It is bundled...

products is the Sorenson Video codec licensed to Apple Inc. for their QuickTime 3.0 software. Since its release, Sorenson Media’s video encoding technology...

VA-API currently supports these video codecs in the official mainline version, but note that exactly which video codecs are supported depends on the hardware...

UT Video Codec Suite is a fast, lossless video codec, developed by Takeshi Umezawa (梅澤 威志, Umezawa Takeshi) and released under the free GNU General Public...

DivX is a brand of 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...

The MSU Lossless Video Codec is a video codec developed by the Graphics & Media Lab Video Group of Moscow State University. It was designed to provide...

ITU-T and MPEG video codec standard known as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC. The Advanced Profile of VC-1 contains tools designed for coding interlaced video sequences as...

regions has been revised to support the VVC (H.266) video codec, the successor to HEVC. AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) Scalable coding License withholds patent rights...

video compression format, specification and software video codec developed by BBC Research & Development. Dirac aimed to provide high-quality video compression...

quantization Bink Video, RAD's format for video at higher color depths Apple Video, a codec based on a similar design Microsoft Video 1, a codec based on a similar...

Apple's other professional applications and improved codec support for editing HD, DV and SD video formats, including encoding presets for devices such...

decode compressed video or audio is called a codec; playing or encoding a video file will sometimes require the user to install a codec library corresponding...

contains data encoded by both an audio codec and a video codec. Being a container format, Ogg can embed audio and video in various formats (such as Dirac,...

other news providers. Flash Video FLV files usually contain material encoded with codecs following the Sorenson Spark or VP6 video compression formats. As...

format and the Ogg container. The libtheora video codec is the reference implementation of the Theora video compression format developed by the Xiph.Org...

An audio codec, or audio decoder is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes...

Comparison of video codecs List of open-source codecs x265 – an open-source software implementation of HEVC List of multimedia (audio/video) codecs H.264/MPEG-4...

Video Code Engine (VCE, was earlier referred to as Video Coding Engine, Video Compression Engine or Video Codec Engine in official AMD documentation)...

browser vendors. The AV1 bitstream specification includes a reference video codec. In 2018, Facebook conducted testing that approximated real-world conditions...

The Combined Community Codec Pack, more commonly referred to by its acronym CCCP, is a collection of codecs (video compression filters) packed for Microsoft...