Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

Windows 7 can play most media files today, out-of-the-box. However, you may find that it may still unable to play some multimedia files. To address this problem, you can download a codec pack for ...

On October 17, I moderated an event entitled the Battle of the Codecs: AV1 vs VVC, presented by Bitmovin as an adjunct to the Demuxed conference in San Francisco. I learned a lot about how many ...

Chips&Media is now announcing that Advanced Professional Video CODEC development has been completed as committed to the ecosystem, and its final RTL is ready to be deployed to the market. The product ...

In a quarterly support document Microsoft has confirmed that starting from version 24H2, Windows 11 will no longer support the AC-3 audio codec. For those unfamiliar, it is an audio codec that ...

One of my users has a JVC camcorder. It records .MOD files that are not playable by default by Media Player 9 or 11. <BR><BR>As a test I downloaded VLC. It does not play them either. <BR><BR>But a tip ...

PARIS – Eager to move its proprietary audio/video codec into Europe's steadily growing digital radio market, Microsoft Corp. has gained membership in the World DAB Forum, an industry group developing ...

Below is a list of codecs supported by Windows Media Player 12. While Windows comes preinstalled with the same version, make sure to check the version by using ALT+H key combination. Next, click on ...

Seven leading Internet companies have announced the Alliance for Open Media project. Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Cisco, and Intel founded the alliance with the aim of accelerating the ...

WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA – Sept. 1, 2015 – Seven leading Internet companies today announced formation of the Alliance for Open Media – an open-source project that will develop next-generation media ...