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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.
