codec

See also: códec

English

Etymology

Blend of coder +‎ decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

codec (plural codecs)

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Wikipedia

1. (computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.

   Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.

2. (computing) A media coding format.

   H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.

Translations

A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal

Armenian: կոդեկ (kodek) Bulgarian: кодек m (kodek) Czech: kodek m Finnish: koodekki French: codec (fr) m German: Codec m Kazakh: кодек (kodek) Korean: 코덱 (ko) (kodek) Maori: kotēkē Marathi: कोडेक m (koḍek) Polish: kodek (pl) m Portuguese: codec (pt) m Russian: кодек (ru) m (kodek) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: кодек m Roman: kodek (sh) m Spanish: códec (es) m Ukrainian: кодек m (kodek)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English codec.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈdɛ.ki/, /koˈdɛk/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈdɛ.ki/, /koˈdɛk/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈdɛk/, /koˈdɛ.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈdɛk/ [kuˈðɛk]

Noun

codec m (plural codecs)

1. (computing) codec (a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal)