title: Publishing on the WWW. Part 9 - Video codecs and decompressors.
abstract: Digital video and audio produce very large and unwieldy files. Codecs are used to shrink files and them play back in reduced file size format. This article disusses the advantages, disadvantages and tradeoffs in using codes, and briefly reviews the most commonly used codecs.
authors.affiliation: Editor-in-Chief, Images Paediatr Cardiol.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Grech