Kieran Kunhya

And same for the audio, you're going to talk to your audio card, which then is going to go in analog to your audio speakers.

the thing that goes inside.

So the container is what we call also the muxer, right?

When I say demuxing, it means decontinuizing, right?

So actually, if you look, mux means multiplexer and demultiplexer, right?

Mux and demux are those.

And same at Kodak is actually coder, decoder, right?

And so

containers are this collection of multiple tracks right so it's a what normal people call the file format but it's a bit more um subtle than that but the most known one of course is mp4 but uh when i started it was avi right if i was the the video format from from uh microsoft and uh move mov which became mp4 was a format from apple

In the open-source community, one of the persons that is still active on Videoland is called Steve Lom and started this Matroska format, which is a bit more complex and more feature-proof.

And there are so many others.

No, it's not.

Because technically, the name of H.264 is MPEG-4 Part 10.

Because MPEG-4 is actually a metaspecification which has several things in it, right?

There is the Part 2.

So there is like audio codecs, right?

AAC, the factor is MP4 audio, something like that.

there is actually several video codecs, right, inside the MPEG-4 specification.

One of them is MPEG-4 part 10, called also AVC, called also H.264, right?

So it's completely the fault of the industry to make things difficult to understand.