Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> 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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