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:''For media codecs, see [[Video#Video stream formats|Video]] and [[Audio]].''

'''CODEC''' (COmpressor DECompressor) is a software product developed by Telvox, an Italian company. Its main features seem to be compression and encryption. This article is mainly about its native compressed (or optionally uncompressed) archive format.

== Identifiers ==
[[IDArc]] says it uses file extension '''.DQT''', but we've found no other evidence of this.

== Identification ==
Files seem to start with {{magic|0x76 0xff}}.

According to [[IDArc]], this sequence could appear at offset 0 or 4, and is followed by a byte whose value is between 0x20 and 0x3f, inclusive.

Note that this format can easily be mistaken for [[Squeeze]].

== Software ==
* [http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/pc/garbo/pc/arcers/codec31.zip CODEC 3.10] (1993) (DOS software)
* [https://www.sac.sk/download/security/codec321.exe CODEC 3.21] (1995) (DOS software)

[[Category:Encryption]]

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-:''For media codecs, see [[Video#Video stream formats|Video]] and [[Audio]].''
+:''For media codecs, see [[Video#Video stream formats|Video]] and [[Audio and Music|Audio]].''
 '''CODEC''' (COmpressor DECompressor) is a software product developed by Telvox, an Italian company. Its main features seem to be compression and encryption. This article is mainly about its native compressed (or optionally uncompressed) archive format.
 == Identifiers ==
-It does not seem to have a default file extension. [[IDArc]] says it uses '''.DQT''', but we've found no other evidence of this.
+It does not seem to have a default file extension. A comment in the [[File command]]'s database may suggest '''.dqt''', but that looks like an error caused by mistranslating [[IDArc]]'s logic.
 Some third parties have abbreviated CODEC as "CDC".
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 According to [[IDArc]], this sequence could appear at offset 0 or 4, and is followed by a byte whose value is between 0x20 and 0x3f, inclusive.
-Note that this format can easily be mistaken for [[Squeeze]].
+Note that this format can easily be mistaken for [[Squeeze]]. There does not seem to be an easy way to distinguish them.
 == Software ==

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 == Identifiers ==
-[[IDArc]] says it uses file extension '''.DQT''', but we've found no other evidence of this.
+It does not seem to have a default file extension. [[IDArc]] says it uses '''.DQT''', but we've found no other evidence of this.
 == Identification ==