Talk:Codec
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Apple Lossless Encoding
Shouldn't [Apple Lossless Encoding] be under lossless, or am I missing something? 1189 13:56, Jun 24, 2004 (UTC)
Coder/Decoder
I added this wording, since it's also commonly used. It came back with 44,000 Google hits [1] (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22coder%2Fdecoder%22&btnG=Search), one of which was a definition in the CNET glossary [2] (http://www.cnet.com/Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/codec.html). --Blackcats 15:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
- I just looked through the article history and found out that a few months ago it used the coder meaning and then it was replaced with compressor. If anything, I think the coder meaning should actually come first, as it has more than twice as many Google hits [3] (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=%22Compressor-Decompressor%22&btnG=Search). It would be nice to find a source for the origin of the term, but just going by the sound of it, "codec" sounds a lot more like "coding" than "compressing." I would think that if the original meaning was compressor/decompressor, then it would be called "comdec" or something like that. --Blackcats 16:20, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
- (en)coder/decoder is simply a more general concept. A codec doesn't necessarily compress data, it just converts data from one representation to another. For example, a YUV codec would convert data from RGB to YUV and/or vice-versa. That has nothing to with compression, it might just be a more appropriate representation respectively one that a software or hardware can handle. --82.141.48.65 02:44, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)