The History of Video Codecs [Infographic]

Vivid Labs Team
VideoCoin
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1 min readMay 28, 2018

Video was once stored as an analog signal on magnetic tape. That changed with the use of compact discs. This change to digital storage was accompanied by the advent of video codecs.

A video codec is software that compresses or decompresses a digital media file, like a video. Today’s rich video ecosystem is made possible, in part, by the use of codecs to compress video.

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Vivid Labs Team
VideoCoin

Creators of VIVID, the next generation NFT publishing platform that allows anyone to create, manage, and sell multimedia NFTs.