Video
Codecs:
Web
Codecs
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/Kiosk/Presentation
Codecs
- Cinepak
- medium-quality CD-ROM video, works on older computers
- Sorenson
Video - high-quality CD-ROM video; requires fast computer
- Indeo 3
- medium-quality CD-ROM video, works on older computers
- Indeo Video
Interactive (4, 5) - high-quality CD-ROM video; requires fast computer
- MPEG-1
- high-quality CD-ROM video; requires special hardware or fast computer
- MPEG-2
- high-quality DVD-ROM video; requires special hardware
Hardware/Capture
Codecs
Editing/Storage/Special-purpose
Codecs
- Apple
Animation - from HD, allows lossless fullscreen playback on very
high-end systems
- Apple
Graphics - very similar to GIF; for images w/ limited colors
- Apple None
- lossless, but inefficient
- Apple
Animation - lossless storage
- Apple Video
- very fast, but low-quality (usually for testing)
- Photo-JPEG
- used at 100% as a storage/transfer format, it creates significantly
smaller files than animation.
Audio Codecs: