FOURCC

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
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2025 May 25 0:21
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2025 May 25 0:23
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Four Character Code

A 4-byte code (4 ASCII characters) used to identify codec formats of streams within container files
  • avc1 → H.264/AVC
  • hvc1 → HEVC/H.265
  • mp4v → MPEG-4 Part 2 Video
In FFmpeg, we specify this FOURCC like -tag:v hvc1 to ensure player compatibility.
 
 
 
 
 

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