


These codecs are usually integrated into our multimedia players, but it may happen that due to the lack of updates or because you're trying to play some sort of format that's not very popular, that you might have problems to open the videos correctly.

Applied to multimedia files, it's an auxiliary program used by a player to display the video and make the audio sound. What? You still don't know what a codec is? Well, it's a program capable of coding or decoding digital signals. To be able to play multimedia files, whether audio or video, on your computer, you need some files called codecs.
