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Avatar, Terminator, Stan Winston and what he’s been doing for the last 12 years.In a great guest blog, Scyfi Love’s man in London Craig Grobler – aka @ckc1ne on Twitter and a top bloke all around – tells of meeting up and spending three hours in the company of James Cameron ahead of the release of his latest blockbuster, Avatar. In that time Cameron and Craig talked about the origins of his most famous creation, The Terminator, his hopes for Avatar and the technology behind it, the death of Stan Winston and what the future may hold.
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Decoding Video Codecs

Posted by Craig Grobler On 07:37

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Whilst browsing the web earlier today I found this easy to read article, with definitions of the most popular video codecs.

Decoding The Codecs
A codec is a formula that removes data - redundant data, data you aren't likely to notice, data that can be derived from other data, and so on - so files can be transmitted more quickly. At the receiving end, a decoder reassembles the data into something coherent.

The Wired article goes into detail about various popular Codec formats including:

a2b (AT&T)
Emblaze (Geo Interactive)
GTS (Graham Technology Solutions)
JPEG (public domain) JPEG(Joint Photographic Experts Group)
Liquid Audio (Liquid Audio)
MP3 (Fraunhofer Institute, Thomson Multimedia)
MPEG-1 (Philips and others)
MPEG-2 (MPEG-LA Consortium)
QDesign Music (QDesign)
QuickTime 2.5 and 3.0 (Apple)
RealMedia 5.0 and G2 (RealNetworks)
Sorenson Video (SorensonVision)
Windows Media Technologies (Microsoft)

Read more over here!

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