Hi everyone.<br><br>Due to the fact that so many codecs are flying around, I chose the lazy way and installed Nimo Codec pack and coupled with some divx, xvid..etc..etc..till a point my windows media ...

Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 is drawing criticism now that tests have found it to use far more memory than the ...

CODEC is one of those newly invented words that's only been in the dictionary for a few years, yet what it represents may be one of the most important pieces of technology in all of AV. There are at ...

Google's settlement with MPEG-LA is a fresh development in a decades-old story of software patents. Will it finally open video codec technology to open source developers? When Google announced last ...

Currently, I have ffdshow and I have no problems playing back pretty much any type of video or audio file, but I'm a bit confused as to how this works. Again, decoding hasn't been a problem, but when ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE retailers and vendors to ...

It's extremely difficult to develop a new codec that truly transforms the fundementals of video compression. Here's why. Another day, another new video codec. Or, if we look just a little below the ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...