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 ...

I'm completely out of my element and I'm looking for suggestions. I want to rip all my wife's CD's to her system or to our home server but I'm not really sure which codec/format to convert the files ...

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Trying to settle an argument with some new video people I'm working with on internet video popularity. What is your favorite video codec for watching anything? Stuff you want to see, or pay to see..

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—SMPTE has joined with Avid to publish a new standard for the VC-3 codec in Interoperable Master Format (IMF). The VC-3 standard, a codec implementation that Avid provides under the ...

On April 5, 2016, the Alliance for Open Media announced three new members; AMD, ARM, and NVIDIA, and that the AOMedia Video codec, also called AV1, would be developed as an open source project. As you ...

Netflix has begun broadcasting content that has been encoded with the AV1 codec. In this case, it is specifically about streaming to televisions and not smartphones. AV1 is the first high-efficiency ...

Protocom has chosen to hard-wire the video and ADPCM (adaptive-differential pulse-code-modulation) audio-encoding capabilities of its $19 (100,000) GoldenReel PR828 device, along with the incremental ...