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What's the Big Deal About Video Codecs in IP Surveillance?

Posted by S. Charles on Oct 23, 2020

What's the Big Deal About Video Codecs in IP Surveillance?
Codecs A video codec is a mechanism that takes analog data, like light, color, and sound, and compresses (the “co” part of codec) that data into information the computer can understand. From there, the video is decompressed (the “dec” part of codec) so it can be played on our screens. Codecs are an essential part of all digital video recording and  IP surveillance ca …