If you plan to view pictures and videos from your mobile device on Windows 11, you will probably need to install the HEIF codecs. The High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container for images ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

Microsoft’s modern Media Player for Windows 11 has received an Insider Preview update, but tests suggest it still uses more ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

Mozilla Firefox has finally gained the ability to hardware accelerate HEVC or H.265 video codec on Windows, and more, with the latest release. Mozilla has released the latest stable version of Firefox ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

In this article, we will describe how to check installed Codecs on Windows 11/10. In the word codec, the first two letters stand for compression and the last three letters stand for decompression.

Codec licensing company Access Advance has introduced a new Video Distribution Patent (VDP) Pool covering internet streaming. The VDP includes the HEVC, AV1, VVC and VP9 codecs. The company already ...