[vlc] Re: basic question about codec

[Cian Cullinan]

On 6/15/05, Antoine Bardel <antoine.bardel at gmail.com> wrote:
> thank you
>  
>   but this does not answer my question.
>  
>  Why do I have to choose both a video and an audio codec ? (since video
> codec can encode sound) Are the streams separated ?
>  
A *video* codec only encodes *video*, an audio codec only encodes *audio*.
Please read the streaming howto
(http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/streaming-howto-en.html)
for answers to this and your question about mapping between
vcodec,acodec options and codec names.

Cian

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