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Video Codecs for IP Surveillance: Cut Bandwidth 50%+ Without Quality Loss
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Video Codecs for IP Surveillance: Cut Bandwidth 50%+ Without Quality Loss

Codecs A video codec is a mechanism that takes analog data, like light, color, and sound, and compresses (the “co” part of codec) that data into information the computer can understand. From there, the video is decompressed (the “dec” p

By S. Charles Oct 23, 2020
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