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In this guide we’ll share a list of the best Android video player apps. While most phones come with a video player pre-installed, the ones from our list below offer more features, better controls, and ...

GOM is an alternate player for Windows Media Player which smoothly and supports both 32-bit as well as 64-bit operating systems. Its strength includes the ability to play some broken media files and ...

This is an open-source project for developing a widely used alternative media player that supports most video codecs available. The player is well-built, and while there are some interface limitations ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

The tech industry has been abuzz with chatter about AV1 encoding recently. There are bold claims about how it will revolutionize streaming video, game streaming, and the Internet at large—but what is ...

The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec (HEVC), H.265, has hit a major public milestone thanks to the work of the developer MultiCoreWare. MCW is launching a new commercial open-source venture ...

Agreement with patent-licensing group clears the way for wider adoption of the Web giant's streaming-video platform WebM. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech ...

Describing it as “the future,” Mozilla has been showing off ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to the industry-standard H.264 that can be decoded entirely in JavaScript. ORBX.js was developed ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...