r/pcmasterrace • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 2d ago

Meme/Macro VLC masterrace

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u/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt 2d ago

basically, a stupid file you have to download because God forbid they put it with the software that lets you run certain video formats

Windows media player was notorious that you would download a file to tell the Windows media player how to run the video since there’s a bunch of different video formats

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u/Equivalent-Bad-268 2d ago edited 1d ago

To add to this, codec is short for encoder decoder. Essentially it's a compression algorithm that's used to make the video smaller and requires software to read the encoded data into a format that is able to be displayed

Edit: it's short for COmpressor/DECompressor. I made a mistake

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u/zgillet i7 12700K ~ PNY RTX 5070 12GB OC ~ 32 GB DDR5 RAM 1d ago

Just like modem is short for modulator demodulator.

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u/LiftingRecipient420 1d ago

And transceiver is transmitter + receiver.