Media Players and What are Codecs?
You are familiar with media players and use them to watch your videos and audio files. To understand media players, first, we discuss codecs. What are Codecs? Codecs are the files in an operating system that help media files to operate. For example, if you have a *.mp4 file you must have an mp4 codec file installed to view the mp4 file. Similarly *.mkv file also needs her relevant codec file to launch. What do Media Players? As we discuss codecs and their function. A media player is a compound of many types of codecs. In the presence of a media player, we do not need to install a different type of codecs as a media player is a library of many types of codecs and makes our work easy.