Glossary

Codecs are used to convert sound, speech or video signals from analog to digital code, and vice versa.They can be hardware based or software based and they vary in their performance and media quality they generate.Codecs are split into encoders, which encode analog data into a digital format, and to ...

H.264 (also known as MPEG-4 AVC) is currently the de-facto leading standard for video compression. It was standardized in 2003 in a joint effort by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), known as the Joint Video Team (JVT).H.264 is used in ...