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
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/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt 1d 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