This article first appeared in the 2006 Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook, which was available free to all subscribers to Streaming Media magazine. For your free subscription, click here. Choosing a ...

The AV1 video codec created by the Alliance for Open Media promises big gains in video quality for a given bitrate. The new codec also delivers an open, royalty-free standard that the consortium hopes ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

Microsoft has fixed a known issue causing video recording and playing failures in some apps on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems. Apps using the WVC1 (Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile) codec ...

PARIS – Eager to move its proprietary audio/video codec into Europe's steadily growing digital radio market, Microsoft Corp. has gained membership in the World DAB Forum, an industry group developing ...

Microsoft's Windows Media Video has been a leading web video format for many years, but good hands-on information for how to get the best results out of it hasn't always been easy to come by. Also, ...

I've downloaded this codec, and a sample video of this, and it seems to do a pretty good job. The sample video I had was 640x360 at 500bps video, 64bps audio. Just wondering if anyone has tried ...