Posted by Jukka Aho on 12/08/06 10:56

Paul Hyett wrote:

> I am new to this, so I don't even know what codecs are.

These might be of some help:

<http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-codec.htm>
<http://tldp.org/HOWTO/VideoLAN-HOWTO/x130.html>

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_codec>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_codec>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec>

Note that codecs are not the same thing as container formats (although
some codecs are intimately tied to certain container formats):

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format_%28digital%29>

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znark

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