[3DSage] likes building replicas of hardware from movies and video games, often with a functional twist. His latest build aimed to bring the Codec from Metal Gear Solid to life. If you haven’t played ...

Do you know you can force the best Bluetooth audio codecs and get the richest sounds delivered from your Android phone to earbuds?

Released a few years back, Codec is a free plugin from developer Lese that uses internet compression algorithms to give sounds a distinctive lo-fi character. Lese has just updated Codec to version 2.0 ...

We’ve been talking a fair bit about Bluetooth audio lately, mostly because consumers and high-end audio companies are making more noise about it than ever before. Be it wireless headsets, hands-free ...

As much as we love debating the pros and cons of new codecs like AV1, VVC, and LCEVC, independent premium-content publishers have largely ignored them. Take Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) founding ...

Few games feel as innovative as Hideo Kojima projects, even when you're playing them decades later. The Metal Gear franchise is great for myriad reasons, from satisfying stealth to memorable ...

In a nutshell: Google just released AV1 3.5, the newest version of the video-encoding technology, which threatens to be a major player in the content and media industry. The codec now has much more ...

"There's this big, ugly sucker at the door," the young woman says, her eyes twinkling, "and he said, 'Who do you think you are, Lena Horne?' I said no but that I knew Miss Horne like a sister." It's ...

I've heard of (and even sometimes used) video players like VLC when Windows Media Player prompts me to download "new codecs", but I've also heard people talk about codec packs like K-Lite, Shark007, ...