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Pity, I had hoped for some clarity on this
It appears there's none to be found, the term 'codec' being used somewhat 'freely' in the literature....
Video coding format - WikipediaAlthough video coding formats such as H.264 are sometimes referred to as codecs, there is a clear conceptual difference between a specification and its implementations. Video coding formats are described in specifications, and software or hardware to encode/decode data in a given video coding format from/to uncompressed video are implementations of those specifications....
....This distinction is not consistently reflected terminologically in the literature....