In the old days, the codec pack for movie playback was badly behaved, and on the contrary there was something like going to be stupid because the movie that was playable until now can not be played ...

There are hundreds of audio and video codecs available and in use, today, most available free, while some cost. Most of the Media Players we install will also install the required Codecs; and yet ...

This article appears in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you produce Windows Media files, your encoder is working with code supplied by ...

Mozilla should pick up and use H.264 codecs that are already installed on the user's system. I've previously written about a variety of reasons this would be a bad idea, especially on Windows. Really ...

Codecs are used to compress video to reduce the bandwidth required to transport streams, or to reduce the storage space required to archive them. The price for this compression is increased ...

Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren't the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec in their browsers. Microsoft is going to do the same, as well, according to my tipsters. Update: It seems ...

Your move Apple: Google announced that they are changing Chrome’s support of HTML5 <video> to be, in Google’s view, more friendly towards open development. The H.264 codec is being removed in favor of ...