ORLANDO, Fla.—“All I need is a QuickTime file.” How many times have you heard this from a client? Unfortunately, that’s not enough information. Here are the reasons why. Digital files consist of ...

I'm completely out of my element and I'm looking for suggestions. I want to rip all my wife's CD's to her system or to our home server but I'm not really sure which codec/format to convert the files ...

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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—SMPTE has joined with Avid to publish a new standard for the VC-3 codec in Interoperable Master Format (IMF). The VC-3 standard, a codec implementation that Avid provides under the ...

Netflix has begun broadcasting content that has been encoded with the AV1 codec. In this case, it is specifically about streaming to televisions and not smartphones. AV1 is the first high-efficiency ...

I have a digital camera (Canon IXUS 800 IS / Canon PowerShot SD700 IS) that can be used to record movies with resolution 640x480 @ 30 fps. Only problem is that it takes 7.5 minutes of recording to ...

As the VP9 codec is being implemented across YouTube, Google has already started working on VP10 compression algorithm, which it hopes will reduce the size of 4K videos by half. The H.264 format is ...