What are audio and video codecs?
Codecs are compression /decompression algorithms that let you transmit and receive pictures when producing digital audio and video. Some codecs are more appropriate for certain kinds of work than others, depending on the operating system, the platform and capture card. Configuring your codec will determine the types of editing modes while setting up for digital A/V editing and playback.
A video or audio Codec (COmpression/DECompression) is a software component allowing to encode data to be stored on a media (CD, DVD, etc…) and/ to decode it to be visualized or heard. There are also so-called “hard” codecs usually embedded to camcorders or digital video players or professional and semi-professional video cards for video editing and composing.
