[FAQ]What is a digital container format and codec?  

[FAQ]What is a digital container format and codec?

In order to use the oCam, you do not need an understanding of the two terms of the above in general In order to use the features that has been extended to oCam, you need to know.

 

Digital container format and codec, we only describe the terms for using the oCam here of the enclosing various meanings.

 

First, digital container format refers to the container format, such as, MP4, MOV AVI we are generally known.

 

If you look at the Wikipedia, it has been a little more detail.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_container_format

(A container or wrapper format is a metafile format whose specification describes how different data elements and metadata coexist in a computer file.)

 

Definition of the codec has been described as follows in Wikipedia. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec

(A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal.)

 

Means, such as common as we know XVID, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H264 codec.

 

For example, when there is a file with the AVI extension, digital container format is the AVI format, video and audio are stored, will be stored in a structured format that is defined as AVI. 



Additional tips

[HOWTO]Setting codec-selecting video codec

You can change the codec by clicking the codec button in oCam main screen.
 


You will see a list of video containers and video codecs as shown below.

Supported video containers are MP4, MKV, M4V, MOV, WMV, FLV, AVI, TS, VOB.

Supported video codecs include NVIDIA NVENC H.264, Open H.264, MPEG-4, Microsoft MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4, Microsoft MPEG-4 Part 3, Windows Media Video 8 (WMV8), MPEG- 2, MPEG-1, FLV.

Of these, the NVIDIA NVENC H.264 codec has an NVIDIA graphics card and is only supported by graphics cards with certain specifications or higher. Please note that if you select this codec using a graphics card, recording will fail.

The NVIDIA NVENC H.264 codec uses a hardware encoder built into the NVIDIA graphics card so you can record almost no rack when recording games.

In addition to the video codec, the video container also records sound during recording, so the audio codec is also used. Supported audio codecs support AAC, MP3, MP2, WMA, and FLAC.

In addition, it supports GIF. If you select and record a GIF, a GIF file is created instead of being recorded as a video file.


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