The Video codec reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Apr-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference: snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org)

Video codec

A video codec is a codec, i.e. a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital video data according to a given video file format or streaming video format.

See:

• Video coding
• Codec
• MPEG
  • MPEG-1
  • MPEG-2
  • MPEG-4
• MJPEG

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