I need some sort of a video player that runs in windows 2000 that supplies its own video codecs, or one that can have a normal codec installed in its directory instead of having the codec registered ...

GOM is an alternate player for Windows Media Player which smoothly and supports both 32-bit as well as 64-bit operating systems. Its strength includes the ability to play some broken media files and ...

Which video player/codec pack do you recommend? I just grabbed VLC and Mplayer, and VLC worked better, while Mplayer crashed on some divX. How does one relate windoze codec packs to codecs in Linux?

There’s a codec race underway between HEVC and AV1, and recent events are making it even more interesting. Today, HEVC, the incumbent codec, is supported by more than 2 billion devices including ...

QuickTime is a proprietary video format from Apple. It was supported on Windows till until recently Apple decided not to anymore. So how do you play QuickTime videos in Windows 11/10? There are a ...

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 ...

SheerVideo Pro, a “nondestructive” software video codec for the production and archival of professional video and film, is now available from BitJazz Inc. Designed to replace uncompressed ...

Today ARC will announce a family of silicon intellectual property (IP) cores—the VRaptor family–for implementing multi-standard video CoDecs. Given that ARC is primarily a RISC processor IP vendor, ...

The MPEG Licensing Authority patent pool has announced that its AVC portfolio licence will remain free indefinitely for video that is free to end users. The AVC portfolio licence covers the H.264 ...