A codec is an algorithm that compresses and decompresses audio and / or video. A video file is typically a container with multiple codecs. For example, a .mp4 file may use the H264 codec for video and ...

As content consumption now dominates online spaces, file size optimization has become an essential component of content generation and distribution. As creators, influencers, and businesses attempt to ...

This presentation explores the history of codecs, containers, and protocols and their impact on the present state of streaming. Learn what qt-faststart does, why h264_mp4toannexb is sometimes ...

[Music] welcome to another video from explaining computers.com this time we're going to look at audio file formats these can be divided into high quality formats that are not compressed high quality ...

I was looking for a tutorial/book that would teach me how to start to use FFmpeg as a library (a.k.a. libav) and then I found the "How to write a video player in less than 1k lines" tutorial.