[pitivi] help: reword and update codecscontainers.page
- From: Jean-François Fortin Tam <jfft src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [pitivi] help: reword and update codecscontainers.page
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 02:05:52 +0000 (UTC)
commit f14ad164a9b5d651b0bce37444a0ad0fe14484f6
Author: Tomas Karger <tomkarger gmail com>
Date: Sun Apr 6 10:42:52 2014 +0200
help: reword and update codecscontainers.page
help/C/codecscontainers.page | 15 +++++++++------
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/codecscontainers.page b/help/C/codecscontainers.page
index 6a9d36d..be84777 100644
--- a/help/C/codecscontainers.page
+++ b/help/C/codecscontainers.page
@@ -5,11 +5,15 @@
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#rendering"/>
- <revision pkgversion="0.15" version="0.1" date="2011-08-28" status="complete"/>
+ <revision pkgversion="0.93" version="0.1" date="2014-04-06" status="complete"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Jean-François Fortin Tam</name>
<email>nekohayo gmail com</email>
</credit>
+ <credit type="contributor">
+ <name>Tomáš Karger</name>
+ <email>tomkarger gmail com</email>
+ </credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
</license>
@@ -17,12 +21,11 @@
</info>
<title>Understanding codecs and containers</title>
- <p>The following is one of the most complex topics of video editing. Many people do not know the
distinction between codecs and container file formats, thanks in part to the general lack of standardization,
confusing marketing terms and filename extensions.</p>
- <p>This guide is an attempt at clarifying this distinction without going into technical details. If you
want to learn more about containers and codecs, you should probably look at Wikipedia's page on <link
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format_(digital)">containers</link> and <link
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec">codecs</link>.</p>
- <p>Basically, a container is what we typically associate with the file format. Containers "contain" the
various components of a video: the stream of images, the sound, and anything else. For example, you could
have multiple soundtracks and subtitles included in a video file, if the container format allows it. Example
of popular containers are OGG, Matroska, AVI, MPEG.</p>
- <p>Codecs are ways of "coding" and "decoding" streams. Their job is typically to compress data (and
decompress it when playing it back) so that you can store and transmit files with a smaller filesize. There
are many codecs available out there, each with their strengths, weaknesses and peculiarities, and choosing
the right codec with the right settings for the right situation is a form of art.</p>
- <p>The following figure should make things clearer:</p>
+ <p>The distinction between codecs and container file formats is often ambiguous. This is in part due to
the general lack of standardization, confusing marketing terms and filename extensions. This page attempts to
clarify this distinction briefly and without going into technical details. If you want to learn more about
containers and codecs, you should probably look at Wikipedia's page on <link
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_container_format">containers</link> and <link
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec">codecs</link>.</p>
+ <p><em>Container</em> is what we typically associate with the file format. Containers "contain" the
various components of a video: the stream of images, the sound, and anything else. For example, you could
have multiple soundtracks and subtitles included in a video file, if the container format allows it. Example
of popular containers are OGG, Matroska, AVI, MPEG.</p>
+ <p><em>Codecs</em> are ways of "coding" and "decoding" streams. Their job is typically to compress data
(and decompress it when playing it back) so that you can store and transmit files with a smaller filesize.
There are many codecs available out there, each with their strengths, weaknesses and peculiarities, and
choosing the right codec with the right settings for the right situation is close to be a form of art in
itself.</p>
<figure>
+ <title>The relationship between containers and codecs</title>
<media type="image" mime="image/jpg" src="figures/codecscontainers.jpg"/>
</figure>
</page>
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