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A FourCC – also spelled FOURCC or fourcc – is a 4-byte identifier which specifies the format of a video stream.

Every [[codec]] has its own unique FourCC.  Commonly, each byte corresponds to a printable character in the [[wikipedia:ASCII|ASCII character set]], making the sequence human-readable.

This is very useful for determining whether {{VLC}} can decode a video stream.  For audio streams, a [https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/TwoCC TwoCC] is used.

Good lists of FourCC can be found here:
* http://abcavi.kibi.ru/fourcc.php
* http://www.fourcc.org/codecs.php
* https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FourCC

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