codecs

This article is on the compression/decompression algorithms used in digital media. For other uses of codec, see Codec (disambiguation). A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. The word codec may be a combination of any of the following: 'Compressor-Decompressor', 'Coder-Decoder', or 'Compression/Decompression algorithm'.
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