software to get streaming

[Tim]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 06:17 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote:
> A technical question: what are codecs?

Encoders and decoders for external data types (though often they're just
a one-way decoder).  Typically, used to convert some foreign format into
the way the system natively handles data.

e.g. To play MPEGs, you use a decoder to extra the data from the MPEG,
and then you play that data.

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