Category Archives: Video Codecs

Articles about video codec technology, from a programming-oriented perspective

Know Your Video Codec Concepts

A rather alarming fact came to my attention recently: There are people out there on the internet who actually learn everything they know about multimedia technology strictly from the information provided at multimedia.cx.

So I thought maybe I should write some articles about core multimedia concepts. Things like the discrete cosine transform, vector quantization, Huffman coding. The fact is that there are already countless pages out there that cover all of these concepts. What could I add?

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