Picture & sound
Audio and video timestamps
Audio and video use timing information so that sounds and pictures can be presented together. Matching codec names do not establish synchronization; the.
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Audio bitrate and perceived quality
Audio bitrate describes how much encoded data is used over time. Its relationship to perceived quality depends on codec, channel arrangement, source material.
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Audio codecs and audio containers
An audio codec describes a way of encoding and decoding sound. A container packages that sound with timing information and possibly video, captions or other.
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Audio description is a separate track
Audio description adds spoken information about important visual action, characters, scene changes or on-screen text. It serves a different purpose from.
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Audio passthrough without guesswork
Audio passthrough forwards a supported encoded signal toward another device that can decode it. Every relevant stage needs to handle that format in the.
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Audio sample rate in a video chain
Audio sample rate counts how many samples represent a channel over time. It is different from bitrate, which describes encoded data over time, and from.
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