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 ...

To open & view RAW image format files in Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Explorer, and Windows Live Photo Gallery on Windows 11/10, you can download and install the free Microsoft Camera Codec Pack. The ...

The AV1 video codec created by the Alliance for Open Media promises big gains in video quality for a given bitrate. The new codec also delivers an open, royalty-free standard that the consortium hopes ...

Microsoft has published a new support page with details about codec support in Windows 10 and 11. For those unfamiliar, codecs are software bits that make it possible to play different audio and video ...

A new video codec has been made available for Video Streaming and Playback services to use over H.264 and H.265 or HEVC. This new codec is being called AV1. It is an open and royalty-free video coding ...

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, ...

The ProRes RAW beta currently works with Adobe Premiere, Premiere Rush, After Effects, and more. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Part of Microsoft’s great big overhaul to Windows 10 finally includes some major changes to Bluetooth support and audio endpoints. These changes are now live in the latest Windows 10 Insider preview ...

Microsoft has published unscheduled fixes for two vulnerabilities, one of them with a severity rating of critical, that make it possible for attackers to execute malicious code on computers running ...

Moving studio-grade audio from point to point is much simpler thanks to browser-based programs that use the open source Opus codec. One such modality is ipDTL from the U.K.’s In:Quality, which I’ve ...