codec

See also: códec

English

Etymology

Syllabic abbreviation of coder decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

Pronunciation

• Audio (UK):

  (file)

Noun

codec (plural codecs)

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)
• Māori: kotēkē
• Marathi: कोडेक m (koḍek)
• Polish: kodek (pl) m
• Portuguese: codec (pt) m
• Russian: кодек (ru) m (kodek)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кодек m

  Latin: 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/

 

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

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

Noun

codec m (plural codecs)

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