Codec Information

A codec is to a multimedia application what a font is to a word processor. In raw uncompressed form, multimedia files are huge taking up an inordinate amount of drive space. To minimize the drive space occupied by a multimedia file it may be compressed using a compression codec.

There are an unknown number of codecs that may number in the thousands. Some are excellent and can reduce the size of a raw multimedia file to a tiny fraction of the uncompressed size with little quality loss; some are terrible, producing poor quality, large files or even crashing your operating system. Codecs are registered with Microsoft by their internal FOURCC header code. This is not to be confused with the file type as specified by the file extension.  Click here to read about movie file types by file extension

In our multimedia software the codecs installed on your machine will be listed before a save to allow you to select your preference.

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Windows Media 9 Series Codecs Installation Package

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Windows Media Codecs 8.0 Installation Package

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Windows Media Video 9 VCM

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