What is "FourCC" ?

[BloodyBaron]

As I browse Doom9's forums for a few months, I've come accross a strange word several times: "FourCC".
I thought it would probably be some kind of a method used to encode a video stream, but I am not quite sure of it.
Could anybody explain me what this "FourCC" is ?

The tool "MKVMerge GUI" proposes it for mkvmerge: the choices possible are "DIVX", "DX50" and "XVID".
What exactly does this refer to ? :confused:

Best Regards

Bloodybaron

[ammck55]

The term you're referring to is the unique "four character code" which identifies the video codec used to compress the video stream in your AVI file. Hence the name 4CC, FourCC, and the like.

ammck55

[BloodyBaron]

ah ok!
Thanks ammck55! :)

BloodyBaron