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 ...

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 ...

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 has published a new support page with details about codec support in Windows 10 and 11. For those unfamiliar, codecs are software bits that make it possible to play different audio and video ...

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 ...

When playing voice notes on WhatsApp desktop, we noticed it says – You must have an Opus codec installed in order to do this. This indicates that the Opus Codec ...

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 ...