I want to watch a video file in school, but all the movies I want to watch use Mpeg4 V2 encoding that can't be read by the movie player there and no new codecs are allowed to be installed (damn school ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—“All I need is a QuickTime file.” How many times have you heard this from a client? Unfortunately, that’s not enough information. Here are the reasons why. Digital files consist of ...

LAS VEGAS–Xytech, a provider of facility management software for the broadcast, media services and video transmission industries is partnering with video cloud provider Blackbird to offer a frame ...

We’ve been hearing rumblings about its imminent release for a few weeks, and now it’s here: The Cowon Q5W is shipping in the US, and the company’s released new details about this Wi-Fi-enabled ...

Streaming platforms and video services have long relied on open-source codecs like x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libaom, and libvp9, all readily available in FFmpeg. For many users, these codecs offer ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...

Recap: Support for the AV1 codec has grown considerably since its launch in 2018. Large and small platforms quickly adopted the format to minimize bandwidth consumption while preserving image quality.

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 ...

Microsoft published a new support page with details about codec support in the Windows Media Player app. As it turns out, the company is removing AC-3 Dolby Digital support in Windows 11 version 24H2.