Codec

Turkish equivalent: CodecDomain: Multimedia

A component or specification that defines how audio or video samples are encoded and decoded.

Technical Context

A component or specification that defines how audio or video samples are encoded and decoded.

A codec and a container are different layers; the same codec can be carried by different containers, and one container can hold streams encoded with different codecs.

Related technical publications

Publications whose title or summary directly references this concept.

Audio Recording and Transmission

The audio chain from microphone and analog-to-digital conversion through sampling, quantization, bit depth, channel layout, codecs, real-time transport, and clock drift.

Image Recording and Transmission

The image pipeline from sensor readout to codecs and containers, including the latency, bandwidth and quality trade-offs of live transmission.

Decoding GSM WAV Files with Java

Java processing of telephony WAV files must distinguish the WAV container from its codec, correctly decode A-law, mu-law, or PCM, and only then prepare audio for VAD or ASR.