Short for
four character code, FourCC is a sequence of
four
byte characters that
identifies data formats. The the FourCC of a video tells Windows that
codec the
video contains.
FourCC is most commonly associated as the
identifier
for Microsoft's
AVI format, however FourCC is used by
other formats as well. Examples of registered FOURCC codes include the
following:
- CC12 (Intel Corporation) Intel YUV12 codec
- DIVX (DivXNetworks, Inc.) DivX video codec.
- DXTC (Microsoft Corporation) DirectX texture compression.
- JPEG (Microsoft Corporation) Still image JPEG.
- MP2V (Media Excel Inc.) MPEG-2 video.
- YU92 (Intel Corporation) YUV format.
