“If you work in video compression, this has happened to you:
“Someone asks what kind of work you do. Maybe it’s your aunt, or your dentist, or that nice girl you’ve started dating. Now you’re trapped. Your only choices are: (1) a long string of jargon that nobody wants to hear and makes folks sorry they asked, or (2) “I work with computers.”
The webM Project has put together a nice introduction to the basics of video transcoding should you ever need to tell your family or friends what you do for a living.
