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Subject: Re: Question: What does 'AVC' stand for in film posts?
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:44:04 -0700
From: PeggLeg <reply@here.net>
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From what I've gathered, it stands for "Advanced Video Codec". Does
that help? Hope so, cause that's all I know.
PeggLeg
In article <h3iNy.630$7y3.284@fx04.iad>, FerL <ferl@someplace.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:57:53 -0500, James McMasters wrote:
>
> > of all of the possibilities at http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/AVC,
> > which one applies to film posts?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC
>
> Seems like the "norm" is to use H264/x264 but I prefer AVC. Either one is
> technically correct. Who knows? I may start a movement! ;)
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