codec

See also: códec

English

Etymology

Blend of coder +‎ decoder, probably in imitation of how modem was formed.

Pronunciation

Audio (UK): (file)

Noun

codec (plural codecs)

(computing) A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
Audio and video codecs are important in making multimedia files small enough to distribute and simple to play back.
(computing) A media coding format.
H.264 and AV1 are examples of video codecs.

Translations

A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal

Armenian: կոդեկ (kodek)
Bulgarian: кодек m (kodek)
Czech: kodek m
Finnish: koodekki
French: codec (fr) m
German: Codec m
Kazakh: кодек (kodek)
Korean: 코덱 (ko) (kodek)
Maori: kotēkē
Marathi: कोडेक m (koḍek)
Polish: kodek (pl) m
Portuguese: codec (pt) m
Russian: кодек (ru) m (kodek)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кодек m

Roman: kodek (sh) m
Spanish: códec (es) m
Ukrainian: кодек m (kodek)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English codec.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈdɛ.ki/, /koˈdɛk/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /koˈdɛk/, /koˈdɛ.ki/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /kuˈdɛk/ [kuˈðɛk]

Noun

codec m (plural codecs)

(computing) codec (a device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal)