AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands — The battle between two competing next-generation video codecs — H.264 and Windows Media 9 — escalated this week during the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) here, ...

Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft says that VP9 on Microsoft Edge will support both software and hardware decoding, ...

On this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft issued a Security Advisory in which it detailed the steps it was taking to fix vulnerabilities in the Indeo codec, which compresses and decompresses video data ...

QuickTime is a proprietary video format from Apple. It was supported on Windows till until recently Apple decided not to anymore. So how do you play QuickTime videos in Windows 11/10? There are a ...

Microsoft is playing nicely with Google. At least, Microsoft is adding support for two Google-supported, open source video codecs: WebM and VP9. Both will be included in an upcoming update for the ...

Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

WAYNE, N.J. — Qualcomm has inked a licensing agreement with Microsoft, under which Qualcomm will integrate Microsoft's Windows Media Audio and Video codecs into its Qtv video decoder solution. Qtv is ...

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