codecs

[dmoney]

what is the difference between a codec and having adcs/dacs

 

[rojo]

What's adcs / dacs? Is that like adhd?

A codec is a compression / decompression scheme. Codecs are required to decode or encode video streams such as xvid, dvix, h.264, mpeg; or audio streams such as mp3, aac, ogg, flac; regardless of container (avi, mp4, mkv). Not sure what you mean by your other acronyms. Are you talking about a digital to analog converter? That's a piece of hardware that receives a digital connection (optical, digital coax or hdmi) and converts the signal to analog (RCA, headphone jack, balanced XLR).

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[j_garcia]

Codec is how the audio/video are encoded. DACs do the decoding.

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

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[markw]

A codec is software that's run by DAC's.

 

[dmoney]

so, a codec isn't a chip it's just a dac? and codecs are just software that the dacs use?

 

[j_garcia]

Basically, yes. It isn't a DAC. The codec is the "language" of how the data is encoded by the ADC and decoded by the DAC.