ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

Hey there, little one! Do you know what a video is? It’s like watching a movie or a cartoon on your TV or phone, right? Well, the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is a technology that makes those videos play smoothly and look really good!

Think of it like building a LEGO house – you need a lot of bricks to create a big, strong house, right? H.264/MPEG-4 AVC does the same thing with videos, using lots of “bricks” called pixels. These pixels are like tiny little building blocks that make up the picture you see on your screen.

But there are so many pixels in a video that it would take a long time to send them all at once! This is where H.264/MPEG-4 AVC comes in – it helps to squish the pixels down so they can be sent faster and take up less space.

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC is like a magical decoder ring that takes all those squished pixels and puts them back together again, like a puzzle! And when it’s all done, you get to watch your favorite videos without any lag or glitching, and they look super clear and colorful! Cool, huh?