Bitstream format

A bitstream format is the format of the data found in a stream of bits used in a digital communication or data storage application. The term typically refers to the data format of the output of an encoder, or the data format of the input to a decoder when using data compression.

Processing
Main article: Stream processing

Standardized interoperability specifications such as the video coding standards produced by the MPEG and the ITU-T, and the audio coding standards produced by the MPEG, often specify only the bitstream format and the decoding process. This allows encoder implementations to use any methods whatsoever that produce bitstreams which conform to the specified bitstream format.

Normally, decoding of a bitstream can be initiated without having to start from the beginning of a file, or the beginning of the data transmission. Some bitstreams are designed for this to occur, for example by using indexes or key frames.

Uses of bit stream decoders (BSD):

gollark: > <@!258639553357676545> well, its not entirely possible to do anything bad with a neural network other than destroy it.I mean, with brains, it would be bad if you got a virus and it started encrypting your memories or something. Or if your religious beliefs were overwritten after you downloaded an evil virus from the interweb.
gollark: And you want to because addictive.
gollark: No, smoking just really quite harmful if you do much of it.
gollark: Oh, you definitely would be, because drugs bad and make you (mostly temporarily) stupiderer.
gollark: Computer stuff just tends to have hilariously stupid amounts of security vulnerabilities in everything, and brains at least... probably less so, since most of them would require physical access probably maybe hopefully.

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