I generally use FFDShow simply because its good at playing a huge range of videos by itself. Beyond that I use G-Spot to determine individual codecs I need and install them. My experience with codec ...

Maintaining a Windows-based PC has, in most respects, gotten easier over the years. OS 'hackability' (the bad kind) has dropped, and Windows Update has become a terrific tool for minimal-intervention ...

Smartphone manufacturers all but took away our beloved phones with headphone jacks. Now we’re left buying admittedly great wireless earbuds hand over fist. But listening to music is no longer 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 ...

A free Radio World ebook explores “Trends in Codecs 2024.” Hartmut Foerster is audio codec specialist and product manager for WorldCast Systems. He has 25 years of experience in this area, from the ...

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-rate tables, and roadmap slides that ...

Robbie Green of Telos Alliance discusses trends in codecs for radio broadcasting. He says the most important is path redundancy.