Today’s media-saturated society requires more and more efficient ways of storing and displaying video. Codecs are methods of storing a video–essentially the language in which a video is stored. Codecs are continuously updated and made more efficient. Essentially newer codecs say the same thing as old ones but in fewer words. H.264 became an instrumental codec in the web video boom, providing content makers with a method to store tons of video online in dramatically less space than before. Writer Bio
