For instance a 2000 kb/s video stream uses 2000 kilobits per second of video, which equates to about 150 MB of disk space to store a 10 minute video (in this case with no audio streams).Įach stream in a file has it's own distinct bitrate. Bitrateīitrate is the amount of bits per second used to encode a stream. To successfully play a particular video file, the media player software used must have access to the codecs necessary to decode the streams present in the file. Video files usually contain both video and audio streams, which can be created with various combinations of audio and video codecs and stored within a single container. CodecsĬodecs encode information for storage or transmission, and subsequently decode it for playback. These are described as the video stream and audio stream respectively, or occasionally as the video and audio tracks. That is, they contain video information, and the associated audio - the soundtrack. When a media player tries loading a container file, it first reads the header information which includes a summary of details about the information contained inside that file, such as the codecs used, and the bitrate and length of the streams. Containers are file formats which are designed to contain varying kinds of encoding, usually of just audio, or audio and video.

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