How to define a Codec? Give few examples of it. - Media

How to define a Codec? Give few examples of it.

- Codec stands for Coder and Decoder.

- It is a software which reads raw data file as input and converts the file into a compressed file.

- Codec is the necessary translator to decide the type of data which makes the file in to the compressed version.

- Video file compression, data compression , audio compression is different from each other.

- Every codec translates the data in different ways.

- Examples of codecs are Intel Indeo codec, Cinepak codec, Photo-JPEG,Sorenson.