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 ...

Neat's Tormod Ree argues centralized codecs limit AV flexibility, advocating for distributed intelligence to enable scalable, ...

I have about a four minute 3d studio/Lightscape animation rendered out as a series of TGA frames and I am curious as to what you guys think is the best codec. I have been using Premiere to splice the ...

Previous iterations of the codec narrative have produced predictable outcomes with incremental efficiency gains, gradual deployment, and long-tail coexistence with previous standards. The same is ...

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 ...

We asked a sampling of industry engineers and users for their perspectives on the evolution of codec designs and applications ...

Codecs and containers are two of the most confusing bits of jargon that modern videomakers have to try and they their heads around. So what do they mean, and what do they do - and which do you choose?

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 ...

Andrew Gladding is a radio broadcast engineer, interviewer, DJ and music producer. He is chief engineer for Salem Media in New York, which operates WMCA(AM) and WNYM(AM), as well as the chief of ...