[vlc] Re: basic question about codec

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A codec is normally considered either for audio or video. Mpeg, avi, mov etc
are not codecs, they are containers (which contains stuff that have been
encoded with a codec)

 

Codecs are divx, xvid, mp3, h.264 etc. etc.

It can be confusing though since some formats are normally just mentioned as
1, like windows media files or quicktime files.

 

A place I would recommend if u want to know more, is www.doom9.org
<http://www.doom9.org/>  which contains a lot of info on video encoding.

 

Cheers

Jonas Larsen

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From: vlc-bounce at videolan.org [mailto:vlc-bounce at videolan.org] On Behalf Of
Antoine Bardel
Sent: 14. juni 2005 17:36
To: vlc at videolan.org
Subject: [vlc] basic question about codec

 

Hi all,

I would like to clarify one thing about tv streaming. 
I'm using this command line  : 

vlc -vvv --color --sout
'#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=4000,venc=ffmpeg{keyint=80,hurry-up,vt=800000},sc
ale=1,acodec=mpga,ab=128,samplerate=44100}:std{access=udp,mux=ts,pcr=100,url
=239.255.1.1,sap,name="F2"}'
v4l:/dev/video0:size=640x380:frequency=623250:norm=secam:adev=/dev/dsp:audio
=0

One thing I'm not clear with is the codec stuff. I thought that in a video
codec, there was sound layers no ? (ex: mpeg). So why do I have to put a
video and an audio codec there ?

I know this is a basic question, but if someone could explain it to me it
would help a lot !!

Thanks

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