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Data Recovery InformationIt’s Effort Harder To Watch Movies (CODEX)
by:
Jeff Slokum
After a long, exhausting day you came home, had your dinner and then sat in front of the TV looking for a good reposeful
movie. Nothing! Then suddenly you remembered that you bought the CD of the new, Oscar-winning motion image “Million Dollar Baby”. You took out your laptop, inserted the 1st CD and hit “play”. To your surprise, the only thing you could see was a green screen. You took out the CD, utter at the media market that gave you a “broken” CD for the fifth time. Tried the second CD; over again
the frustrating green screen. 1st thing in the morning, you took your “broken” movies and went to the shop. Having shouted at the owner of the shop for five minutes, you suddenly detected
the misanthropical
smile on the guy’s face. Having the possibleness
to talk, the shop keeper same
“CODEX”.
All you required were the codecs for these movies. They were not broken; they were simply coded in a “foreign” language to your media player. The codecs were the lexicon that your laptop computer had to use to translate the absurd computer language to the good scenes of the movies.
Every video, audio, image or even as word document files are coded in a several way. In the case of big data entries like movies, the computer has to use several algorithms to compress the data so that the size makes not exceed the standard limits. We see this compression in PDF files (Acrobat Reader), in MP3 files (WinAMP), in MPEG files (movies), in each and every data storage file that you can imagine. Spell the compression is being done, the programs use several kind of a dictionary. Without these “dictionaries” (codecs in the case of video and audio files) the code would-be seem as insignificant to the player or the viewer as it is to you. So you have to install certain codecs to be able to use certain files.
Some codecs replace the repetitive symbols over the file, ome codecs changes the aspect magnitude relation of the movie; several of them decrease the quality of the image and yet, all of them turn gigabytes of data into fair size that can fit into a CD or a DVD.
As the user demands increases, codecs are multiplying in a power
scale. There are several codecs that are musts for motion image fans, however. You should install most of these if you don’t want to be disappointed.
1. MPEG4 - It is the default codec which is already enclosed
in WMP.
2. DIVX - A series of sound and display codex which move with software package DIVX player.
3. XVID - Comparatively
new, one of the most used video codecs.
4. AC3 - Most common sound codec.
5. Intel Indeo - Rather useful series of codec which a new version pops out everyday.
Overall the way movies are encoded is dynamical
day by day. Everyday we see a new aspect ratio. Everyday we encounter a new codec. To many, it would-be seem that it is effort harder and hard to watch movies. The least you can do is to transfer
a codec viewer program which would-be help you on your quest for a pleasant evening.
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