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Message: <blockquote data-quote="||~DxxCxxxx~||" data-source="post: 3696706" data-attributes="member: 137393">What´s the difference between "decoding", "encoding", "recoding" and "transcoding"?<img src="http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/10/audio-edit-vocal-wave-sm.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />• Transcoding Conversion of a video file which is present in a special format into another video format (e.g. DivX in DVD or MPEG-2 in DivX,…).  • Recoding Conversion of a video file which is present in a special format with special attributes in the same format with different attributes (e.g. 2 h movie with 3000 Kbit/s into 2 h movie with 2000 Kbit/s).  • Encoding Creating a video file in a special format (e.g. DivX, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, ...) - You´ll need a DivX Encoder in order to be able to create DivX files and a MPEG-2 Encoder in order to be able to create MPEG-2 videos. You´ll need these encoders for transcoding and recoding video files as well.  • Decoding Simply opening and watching video files with a video player (e.g. a DivX decoder for opening DivX files or a MPEG-1 Decoder for opening a MPEG-1 video file).</blockquote>

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