Media

Big picture: a codec compresses pictures or samples. The later pages are the codecs in use.

Reading order

1. Codec: encode, decode, the bitstream, and the container around it.
2. Video codecs: delivery and editing codecs, and why some have two names.
3. Audio codecs: lossy, lossless, and uncompressed.

flowchart LR
    C[Codec] --> V[Video codecs]
    C --> A[Audio codecs]