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video codec
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video codec
(1) (video enCOder/DECoder) Software that compresses and decompresses a digital video signal. MPEG, Windows Media Video (WMV) and H.264 are examples of popular codecs that compress and decompress digital video. The video codec may also be a hardware circuit. See codec examples, codec, MPEG, Windows Media formats, QuickTime, H.264 and VC-1.

(2) (video enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that converts analog video (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) into digital code and vice versa. The circuit may provide only the A/D and D/A conversion, or it may include a compression algorithm to further reduce the signal such as defined in #1 above. See codec.


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264/AVC video coder via cauchy-density-based rate and distortion models," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, pp.
These applications require support for video coders, speech coders, telephony middleware, JBIG standards (Joint Bi-Level Image Experts Group), MP3, software modem- and other DSP-intensive tasks in addition to supporting a real-time operating system, and system and network management tasks which are better served by a RISC processor.
The ECECOW video coder offers the following features that are very important for remote visualization via relatively low bandwidth channels like internet.
 
 
 
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