What is a Codec as Fast As Possible
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Ever had to download a codec to play back a video or audio file? Ever wondered what the devil they are and why we need them? Now you can know in about 4 minutes!
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9 years later and this video is still relevant and helpful
Linus, you are seriously the only person worth listening to on technology information. seriously you 're light years ahead of, and beyond the rest of the people that are honestly giving their all, but just don't stack up.
Audio file won't play? VLC.
Can't watch the DVD you just torrented (not that you would do that)? VLC.
I've told people about that since high school and they think I'm a tech guru. Nope. Just a guy with Google.
...So maybe I am a tech guru.
Don't say tech guru.
Sexy Tech guru
another alternative is PotPlayer
Lol 2014
do you still alive?
Great job! I needed to find a way to describe this to some "higher ups" and couldn't find a way without getting too complicated and technical. This was super helpful.
ruclips.net/video/rbv3dgUIz94/видео.html
The typography in the recent videos has improved soooo much! I appreciate that!
10 minutes HD video 60 GB? i think it would be even more, once i made an after effect composition, it was 15 second long and it was 4 gb ... my pc couldn't even play it back smoothly
Perhaps the framerate was different.
Nope, that's just Lossless out of After Effects. It "really" is that big. This is why Adobe's Dynamic Link is loved by so many content creators.
Adonai Well based on my calculation 10 mins * 150 million bytes/sec = 90 billion bytes ish.
4:00 Hmmm... Are you sure that it isn't going to install Stalin on my comouter?
On our computer?
lol how could anyone be certain
And this is how the Soviet Union was revived
Very helpful for my College assignment, ty!
haha class guy, actually i recently finished an assignment on different file types for photos/video.
***** whats wrong?
always preferred Klite for my all in one codec needs. Updates way more often then CCCP does and contains the same stuff.
that was my first thought too... what no mention of k-lite
remle ikawura if a system codec got messed up its because you messed it up klite keeps all current codec profiles the same but it does allow you to change them so maybe you hit something by accident and assumed it was klite that did it. o and if you set your default playback to higher than 44.1khz i believe it is will cause many games to crash because their codecs do not support anything higher
purekeynoob
I've been using K-lite for close to 5 years on 3 different computers with AMD/Nvidia GPU's and I've never had anything crash due to a codec problem. If something crashes it almost ALWAYS because the game I'm playing is a wretched PC port in the first place and nothing to do with how my codecs are set up ;p
Asfaik, CCCP last update in 1991
and that saved my school presentation
thanks linus :)
+1 for flawless transition from content to advertising.
I use K-Lite Codec Pack and its MPC-HC. Because I am used to MPC-HC hotkeys which are great, can't live without them
agreed
Exia2004 it causes too much problems
Ubeogesh FFmpeg.
Needs more JPEG.
jpeg sucks though
XxAdminChllaxX Truth ^^
PNG Master race!
sfaddic182 exactly.. Why would you use .gif anyway beside from animations?
I was saying "Needs more JPEG" as a joke.
Its just something you say to someone who shows you a shit picture.
heres a question: what defines quality? what IS quality? just more pixels? how come a compressed video (500MB) is 1080p but an uncompressed (60GB) is also 1080p but with more quality? what IS that additonal quality?? ty!
The difference is in lossy compression, think of it like chopping of more or less parts of the clip.
There is a video on computerphile's channel if you want a good explanation. It's actually quite interesting
it has a higher bit rate
lossy compression is the process of creating averages in the data. For example a video codec might notice that there's a lot of white behind Linus and as such decide that instead of storing the slight alterations in colour it'll store it in blocks of colour instead. This is why if you watch a DVD you'll notice slightly blocky skies. This has the advantage of being much smaller but the disadvantage of irreparably changing the data. Uncompressed or Losslessly compressed data stores the data without actually changing the output at all. In its simplest form, each pixel has a colour value in each frame and is saved one by one. Lossless compression codecs will compress the file in a similar way to how a Zip file does but that's a lot to explain in a RUclips comment. Basically lossy compression actually removes data from the stream in a way its creators hope you won't notice. There's a lot of technology working to compress your videos - and its all based on what your human eye can't see, ie. Being as transparent as possible.
Hope that helps!
Eoin Fitzpatrick nigga please, increasing the bit rate aint making it that much more
I tried hotspot shield it brought my connection down to 10Mbps I us usually have 30-35Mbps!
Good video!
Due to the way a VPN works (redirecting all of the traffic through a central server) speed and latency will always be worse.
Techquickie lol not for me. My speed finally went up to my advertised 3Mbps.
3Mbps :(
Techquickie I heard that using a VPN brings your speed up! Now my speed is fine at 30Mbps but 10 is kind of slow! Aleast that is what RUclips user Tek Syndicate said !
bensemus x
That is to bad about your internet speed being to so slow. what carrier are you on? just asking!
I live in a small town in the middle of mountains. Small being 10K. my carrier is Telus.
Techquickie Do a fast as possible on VPNs!
The graphics in this video are really good. Linus Media is stepping up the skill level!
stupid comment
9 years later and still best explanation on youtube
I recommend that service that is sponsoring this channel. It's a good VPN service if you have sites blocked by the network at school, college or at work.*
*depends on network restrictions over time.
I remember I could access Facebook at high school.
I beta test for them and at this moment I don't recommend them. People will fall into a trap. Well not trap but will be unhappy if they get it now. The apps on Mac and Android have been broke for a while now. Not staying connected. This is public release and BETA release. So shows they haven't a clue how to fix it. I have had to revert to a version before 2.0 on android. It works then but if you get it from the Google store it is broken.
That's unfortunate. When I used it (3 years ago), it worked great that I used its service trial then I went for a month service. It was worth it then. After that, I was like, "meh" and left it aside. I never touched it after that.
Marcus Smith yeah. As a beta tester it wouldn't bother me. But when the public release is doing it as well its annoying sure. Because I'm left with no choice to install third party style from an outdated version. But I spoke to Mike today and they are releasing an update tomorrow hopefully with fixes to these issues. Hopefully they do.
sammyjc89 Oh well. Good thing I don't need it anymore.
Just an update. Next public release will be fixed. BETA app is working perfect. Look out for 2.0.5
Thanks for the compressed, low latency explanation video.
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This is way to advanced for tech quickie, though it was meant to explain more simply
-_-
Same here, some of these explanations are over my head and I'm a software engineering student.
Quarker If you didn't understand some of this and your a software engineer get a refund on that education asap m8. I'm just a arm-chair tech enthusiast but this all made perfect sense with even my very limited knowledge of audio and video.
***** I'm still a student, there's the first point. Only halfway through my degree. Most of what I've learned so far do not include the technicalities of multimedia. This video's still good, I'm not saying it isn't, but towards the end I started getting lost.
VLC FTW!
CCCP for life! :P
Garth S You can't beat open-source!
Linus do you have my Google Search History?????
Your videos lately are eerily correlated to my Google searches.
I prefer KLite Codec Pack
me too
I used to use that, then I found VLC Player.
ChaoticWolf vlc is overloaded with shit.
Sh4rkill3r That's kinda the point, it's overloaded, so you'll be able to play anything from anywhere. They could cut out half the codecs, and still have it work 90% of the time, but then it would lose its appeal.
ThoolooExpress klite mega + mediaplayerclassic run everything too. i have both installed and i never use vlc. is so slow compared to mpc.
Dang, Linus, you've been doing this a long time. Excellent explanation. I'd say keep up the great work, but, no need for that. That's just what you do, the way you role!
Codecs and containers are easily confused, for example .mp4 is usually associated with lossy video, but can also contain lossy AAC files as well as lossless compressed music files in the ALAC format: which is why it's usually changed to m4a.
4:10 One of the better sponsor segues that they've done on Techquickie.
CCCP huh? Seems like Russia got Linus too...
Props Linus, your first ad that is actually related with the video content!
Low-level programming as fast as possible
I'm not sure that people who need Techquickie would even understand what programming is
ShadowMassacr13
nobody "needs" Techquickie, but it's good to watch
Joe G.P. My mom needs Techquickie.
ShadowMassacr13
she NEEDS to know what codecs or a RAID configuration is ? sure it wouldn't hurt but then she'd be the coolest mom ever and we can't have that
Joe G.P. Well when she has a son who talks about such things 24/7...
The video helped a lot with my vocational school exam. Thank you so much!
Great Sponsor transition
At least this video was not just an advertisement for Cooler Master...
1:44
The breaths are real.
Hi all. I'm confused about codecs. I want to upload video I've used my phone to record at 4k60fps with the H.264 codec. Phone video is variable frame rate which means I have to convert it to a constant frame rate. My editor gives me good, better, best options which are H.264, DNxHR, and UT Video respectively. DNxHR and UT Video are insanely huge but uncompressed. I'm wondering if there would be any difference in quality though going from H.264 to H.264? Then when it is time what should I export to? If I understand correctly RUclips is going to use VP9 but does my export codec have any impact on end product on RUclips? How do I balance this out because a 30 minute video with one of the larger codecs is roughly 500gb which with a 50mbps upload(fastest I can get) it will take almost a day.
So short version is, when converting a 4k60fps H.264 video from VFR to CFR does using H.264 cause more loss or do I need a better codec? Whatever codec I used for conversion, what should I use to determine export codec after editing if my intent is 4k60fps uploading to RUclips that will use VT9?
Nice, simple, and informative video!
Is it possible to shrink a video file to ultra small size so i can store more movies in my 500gb hdd???
What are the differences between different audio connections? optical vs analog vs hdmi etc. I am always very confused about the tradeoffs and the medium that offers the best quality.
Techquickie tell us about the ongoing revolution of HEVC/H.265 + x265 and how its processing power disadvantages are continuously being mitigated in the CPU-GPU world as we speak into possibly the best codec tradeoff so far.
I've uploaded large files to RUclips because they refuse to support lossless codecs. The most recent one was about 18GB and had less than 5 minutes of video. Considering most of the size comes from me having to resize the video so RUclips actually uses a decent bitrate, a lossless codec would almost completely nullify the difference in filesizes due to information hardly changing.
Just for an idea of how big these audio files can be, titanfall uses uncompressed audio for the PC version, the game is only 15GB while the audio is 35GB. So just the uncompressed audio is more than double the file size of everything else in the game.
After many years i finally got my answer... thanks dude.
VPN is a good idea, but if you have the resources, paying money for a VPN is a little pointless. However, for most people who just wanna watch netflix, paying is what you probably wanna do.
I usually use PotPlayer or Media Player Classic to play video.
Ted H PotPlayer ftw
I have always used K-lite codec pack, you get the choise if you want to install WMP classic and gives you alot of codecs.
Very complicated subject to learn, and very interesting video tutorial to watch. Thank you a lot!
Install GOM Player instead of VLC, upvote this after testing. It's the best media player out there, no doubt about it.
I don't think GOM is catching up the mainstream media players. VLC appears to be the best in terms of reliability and user-experience.
NeilFX Haha, atleast you're funny, But you don't know that much about computers and stuff. Should I use smaller words maybe? :)
SomeNiceMovies You didn't jump into my segue, of course it was meant to be a bluff. I'm an IT student and as you expect I do lots of programming and I just built a computer about a month ago :) So please, be nice.
I agree, its amazing. I have VLC but its ugly, the settings and the UI of GOM are great.
NeilFX GOM eats VLC any day of the week. So much more settings to set, better codec system, easier to use and more advanced if you want it to be. VLC doesn't even come close. I used VLC for about 4-5 years or something. It had alot of bugs, it's crashing alot and some other problems. Have had very small and very few issues with GOM. And the ones I've had got solved by a simple google search. Whereas when I googled for VLC problems, no one had the sollution.
My friends still use VLC. They complain alot. The ones that use GOM complain WAY less and some of them never.
Your IT studenting didn't help you on this question, man. Use GOM for another year and then come back to say that it's worse. If you do say it is you'll be lying.
Well I actually have a problem: I bought a NAS and transfere all my pictures, music and movies on to it. But I am not able to use it on my Panasonic Viera TV! It detect the NAS, but not a single file, picture or video that I have on it. I was on costumer suport with Panasonic for some time exhaning some like 8 e-mails. Befor they cind of just said. I have "wrong codec" on all the stuff I put on my NAS. So the TV does not suport it.
So, can I change codec and / or can I some how fix this in any way?
Please help he with this.
A hardware codec isn't just a DAC and ADC, though...
You can get hardware Encoders and Decoders for all those compression standards you pointed out... I should know, I work in a team that writes drivers for a Video Decoder at my job. :P
Soooo, if i want to record stuff, what codec should i use. I have an AMD graphic card and i mostly use the H.264 codec provided by AMD. I am confused :(
Oh and also, i have a HD7770 right now, i want to change to a nvidia card. But my budget only allow me to get a gtx760 at most. But i also want more rams. So should i get a gtx660ti with 2gb of rams or what??I want to play smooth on BF3 and planetside2 . Also, i am trying to save money for the games coming:) so not much budget.
Alan Resnick has another video on RUclips that might help answer your question.
The only Codec (software) I use is to compress AVI files into waAAAAYYY smaller versions with unnoticeable quality difference. (useful for FRAPS)
CCCP codec pack is in every way superior to VLC. Customized MPC-HC is the best media player there is. It just takes some effort to get everything work properly. For people who are interested, Google "MPC HC advanced setup guide" and follow the AV Science Forum suggestion.
One of the best media players is potplayer , i find it better than the other options with its rich features and ease of use .
Please explain the differences between 120htz TV's and 120htz Monitors. Advantages and disadvantages. But mainly, why advertised 120htz TV will only play 60htz when a computer is plugged in.
Nearly every file format is a container.
Even a mp3 can store data like the track name, album cover or artist
You saying I can embed .rar files into an mp3 like I can with jpegs?
I prefer K-lite over VLC and CCCP.
Ya K-lite is much better maintained and updated then the other two and they have made it easier to install newer packs over older ones now with the quick upgrade (without losing all your settings like before). I mean they have had like two major updates and 2 minor ones over the last two months alone where CCCP/VLC can go months without an update. If you always want the latest and greatest up to date codecs in one place K-lite is my personal preference.
devilmikey00 VLC updated like 3 times in as many months for me. Honestly that seems fine. Never had anything that doesn't run properly.
The KMPlayer is a good media player. Contains some codecs that vlc doesnt. At least it did when I used it a few years back
I used to use K-Lite and always had a backup player in the form of KMPlayer, because K-Lite just doesn't work with everything. Then i switched to KMPlayer entirely since it worked better than K-Lite, but then they "evolved" and i had to get rid of it, and now i use GOM Player, so far so good.
I didn't like VLC for a lot of reasons (not playback related)
most contain bloatware and malware. be careful
i use klite. It lets me use a more stable player and i have never run into a video i cannot play.
I have heard good things about CCCP (combined community codec pack) though.
Well there are more good things I have heard about CCCP :)
Personally, I thought the K-Lite Mega Codec pack was better than the CCCP pack.
Download DAUM Potplayer instead of VLC. It's much nicer and more customizable
waited 4 minutes, hoping you would recommend VLC &/or CCCP.
forever on my essetials-download list, for clean installs !
- love the show
So is a codec a file format? Or is it a program/software that performs the actions? Or is it a driver that works with different file types?
+Ankit Guliani In most contexts it is a software component responsible for encoding and/or decoding compressed media streams (like video or audio streams).
+jayvl09 thanks
+Ankit Guliani As Linus, I'm guessing his name is, said, software codecs pack up data. So does this mean that a codec compresses data (not that I really know for sure what that means) ? And if so, is there any data loss during this?
yes it compresses or decompresses. Compression may be lossy or lossless depending on which codec and settings are used.
+jayvl09 ok thx man!! Much appreciated
so basically, with higher and higher video quality coming to a end within the next decade (getting as detailed as the human eye allows) and with videos remaining the same length in duration, as well as 5g around the corner we just have to wait for Moore's law to catch up to where lossless compression no longer becomes an issue, where net speeds can stream 60 gigs worth with ease, and hard drive space reaches into the hundreds of terabytes, is this correct, or will it ALWAYS be a "cat and mouse game" within a lifetimes (foreseeable) future? (now to 50 years from now?)
Wow nicely done Linus! Love TechQuicke and would love to see more content from it!
ruclips.net/video/rbv3dgUIz94/видео.html
Dear Techquickie, can u please explain the differences between modem and routers? and what good use are wireless/wired modems/routers?
I want movies available for download In the original format. RAW video and lossless audio, forget storage I'll go buy a 1tb hard drive for less than $80 to keep it on.
I use GOM Player for watching videos, foobar2000 for music and MediaCoder for changing formats, size, etc..
What about if youtube videos are buffering slow and no problems with anything else besides youtube?
I use K-Lite Codec Pack (Mega). It can integrate itself with Windows Media Player to play formats not originally designed to play, such as *.flv, *.mkv, and *.ogg. The benefits are more noticeable in Windows XP than say Windows 7 because WMP11 plays less formats on its own compared to WMP12, although both media players can benefit. It even has a DVD decoder; ffmpeg or LAV.
One of the biggest problems with Windows 8/8.1 is that DVD playback has been forced out of WMP12. I understand that Microsoft didn't want to include the codecs anymore past Windows 7 because money but why not leave the DVD option in the menus? The worst that would happen is an error that no codec has been installed. Microsoft's reasoning is forcing standards of live streaming content rather than having backwards compatibility with the older disk formats. True, VLC Media Player can run on Windows 8/8.1 but why not leave the DVD playback open-ended?
This! Still left me confused the reason codecs still matter is because you have Xbox and other consoles but require you to format your media certain way and that's why I still have to understand them even though I don't want to
surprised linus didnt mention GOM player, after VLC. For some reason, movies look better on GOM player, than VLC (which makes no sense to me since VLC is streaming). Anyone, what's best place for GOM player codec pack?
Or just install the free version of Zoom Player, don't install anything but the Install Center and have it download and install the Codecs for you. As this prevents the issues with possibly having multiple Codecs with different versions.
So when i play a bluray ripped .avi file, the resolution is quite good, but its kinda choppy and not synced with the audio, is it my player or is the video file just bad?
If you try to play the file on multiple players and get the same results it's probably not the player. Try VLC, MPC-HC, and another one like Potplayer.
It could be the vid file is bad or not synced properly. Or it might be your computer is not powerful enough to play the file. If the file uses a more cpu/graphic intensive codec, like H.264, that can cause choppy playback if your pc isn't up to snuff.
You can use a program like MediaInfo to find out what codecs the file contains.
Quickie episode suggestion. Mice sensor types and dpi. I was recently wondering about the dpi mostly. At around 4k dpi that most gamer mice offer these days, 1cm of movement of the mouse gives you like 2000px movement of the cursor on the screen. That makes it impossible to operate so.... why go that high with the dpi? Is this just for the marketing?
What about where there are fewer colours in the image particularly at darker ranges where it is so horrible and looks so bad. Like a sunset where the gradient change of colours throught the sky suddenly changes from each section to next with very noticable difference in colour between them raher than gradual. This is another form of compression I presume? What is that particular form of compression called? I'm guessing youtube uses it and that you cant change it by any chance even when uploading?! hah - I mean it is really bad sometimes. Why cant that type of compression be removed but keep the others? Or is it just with h.264 or whatever that you just get what you get and h264 is what it is and you cant change different parts of the compression or encode with some compression features but not others. I want hq 4k vids but this apparent youtube compression spoils them. Do they just use standard h264?
I rip all my CD's into WAV and FLAC files, I'll settle for a 320kb MP3 or AAC file from Itunes if I have to, and mainly only with rap/hip hop since that genre tends to be harder to distinguish from lossless to lossy probably due to smaller dynamic range compared to other genres using real instruments.
Love CCCP, used it since Naruto 65.
Linus can you give us a rundown on how the different color switches on keyboards work?
did anyone else get this video when looking up the metal gear Codec Conversions
My suggestion for as fast as possible is "JAN SLOOT DATA COMPRESSION TECHNIQUE "
If you sent a file that is formatted using one codec, and sent it to another computer without that codec , is it that the second computer can't read it without the same codec?
How could you recommend VLC? The audio is horrible! CCCP isn't quite as bad, but has a lot of overlapping codecs. MPC is the only one I can vouch for.
or you could download Klite codec pack this contains almost every audio and video codec and you don't have to install an other media player.
Wow first time i actually liked a sponsor
Someone needs to make a codec that can can heavily compress without much loss, the best I know of is mkv but I wouldn't mind something 5 times more processor intensive. Small files make me happy.
Praxis Alrighty, that helps clear things up. How long until we see H.265? I know so little about it's coming.
CCCP? Sweet, I haven't seen it before...
I've been using KLite Codec Pack... I guess CCCP is a more better codec pack since he recommended it. o_O
It's far superior to Klite, take it and never go back :P.
VaNilla i prefer K-Lite Codec Pack due to all the different decoders it comes with, also the splitters are nice.
LAV, ffdshow, DXVA, and more.
Unless you're a video editor, all you need to watch ANY video is VLC Media Player.
2:10
The technology exists! It just hasn't been widely adopted yet. Unfortunately by the time we can finally start streaming lossless 1080p people will probably need 4K and beyond, which will force us to go back to compression again.
CCCP standing for the Combined Community Codec Pack look it up its a play on the initialism even the website humors it. There is also K-Lite Codecs which is like it. But i prefer CCCP
Do all Codec types work with all wireless headphones or headsets?
Thanks for not having annotations!
1:56 "lossy" compressed/autotuned pun?
I love Combined Community Codec Pack Codec Pack!
4:00 IT'S MP CLASSIC NOT WMP CLASSIC, WINDOWS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT (don't mind the anger, it just goes well with my profile picture)
Okay, I have a question. What are these Codex things you see on pirating sites??? I don't use them, or pirate at all for that matter, I'm just very curious as to what these "Codex" things do. Is it full software, or just some type of launcher thing. Plz reply. :D
good user, m.A.A.d internet just stay away from them.
I just wanna know why there's a unicorn on the thumbnail. I guess I was clickbaited.
Hey Linus,
Just wondering if I am able to download your video here so I can use in a public area? (By public I mean my school)
Cheers
lossless > opus > aac > mp3
'if all of this is still pretty confusing' i knew what codec was before, i just watched this video because i'm subscribed to it xD
But, it's a very good explaination x
The few drawbacks i have seen with vlc is.
No .wav support... wtf is the use for that one anyways? Seems to only be used for 8 bit or 16 bit audio, and last time i had one it was a pain in the ass to convert.
Cant play gif files... dunno why. Wmp does both of thesw though and this where i use it.