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Article: Inside the digital video architecture
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- New Straits Times
- Article date:
- December 4, 1997
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Ken Neo
New Straits Times
12-04-1997
WHEN digital video was first introduced into the personal computer
(PC) world, it faced many challenges. However, among them included digital
video being a proprietary standard.
Most video capture board were "codec-specific". This means that if you
capture video with Brand X video capture card, you would not necessary
be able to playback the clip on just any PC.
There was no common standard at that time. By the way, a codec stands
for compressor and decompressor which is used to compress and decompress
digital video data.
Anyway, this made using digital video very inconvenient.
All the different codecs that were available used proprietary
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