AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands — The battle between two competing next-generation video codecs — H.264 and Windows Media 9 — escalated this week during the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) here, ...

HEVC, or High-Efficiency Video Coding, is a video compression standard. It is also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2. It is a successor to AVC or H.264 or MPEG-4. HEVC maintains the same video quality ...

K-Lite Codec Pack Full upgrades your system's media capabilities with a full package of high-performance audio and video codecs that can play just about anything. This free pack is more than a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft says that VP9 on Microsoft Edge will support both software and hardware decoding, ...

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 ...

Apple has released a beta version of its ProRes RAW video codecs for Windows devices, allowing the Adobe creative suite of apps to work with files that use the codec on Microsoft's OS. Video creators ...

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update, due this summer, will expand the range of video and audio codecs that are supported by the Edge browser. Microsoft is adding the VP9 video codec, the Opus audio ...

WAYNE, N.J. — Qualcomm has inked a licensing agreement with Microsoft, under which Qualcomm will integrate Microsoft's Windows Media Audio and Video codecs into its Qtv video decoder solution. Qtv is ...