====== Terminology ======

  * **QCIF** - Quarter Common Intermediate Format. A standard size for images produced by low-resolution digital cameras and video cameras. QCIF images are 176 pixels wide and 144 pixels tall (176 x 144). QCIF is smaller than CIF, QVGA, and VGA.
  * **MPEG** - The Moving Picture Experts Group and the Video Coding Experts Group.
  * **AVC** - Advanced Video Coding.
  * **H264** - The latest method of encoding and decoding a video bitstream with a better compression/quality factor than earlier methods.
  * **Codec** - en~code~r/dec~oder (codec) A video codec is a device or software that encodes lossless video into a compressed lossy data stream ready to be decompressed by a decoder for playback of digital video. The codec employs a complex set of encoding and decoding algorithms to achieve robustness against data loss and error. There are many different codecs available.
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