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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > And a codec is a piece of software, so it's nothing of those.
> Really? I thought the term "codec" refers to the data format, and the
> algorithm for producing/consuming it? (I.e., the specification document
> is the codec, the software is an "implementation of" the codec, and any
> files using it are "uses of" the codec.)
"A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding and/or
decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a
portmanteau (a blending of two or more words) of
'compressor-decompressor' or, more accurately, 'coder-decoder'."
It's a piece of software (or hardware, if we are technical).
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- Warp
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