I have less knowledge on the codecs. What I know codec stands for Decode/Encode.In codecs will be built in mobiles and external libs can used as an alternative. By codecs plays big role for Audio\Video in which format have encoded as file and decoded to play them.

Problem :

Android api 16 is shipped with **MediaCodec** which can do Encoding/Decoding work. **MediaCodec** contains flags constant 

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Is it same as **MPEG-4 part 2 (MPEG-4 Visual Format)** codec format. 

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> note : There is MPEG-4 part 10 format which is (H.264 )AVC Format. I just want need confirmation or any documentation or Blogs links which can help me in this. 
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