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 ...

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 ...

Following in the footsteps of Apple's ProRes RAW, Blackmagic Design has launched its own RAW video codec into a public beta. Blackmagic RAW "combines the quality and benefits of RAW with the ease of ...

Media formats have come a long way since the early days of computing. Once upon a time, the very idea of even playing live audio was considered a lofty goal, with home computers instead making do with ...

So there's a bunch of old VHS tapes I would like to capture while I still have the ability to actually play them. I have a USB video capture box http://blitzcast.com ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

Google's plan to open-source the VP8 video codec it acquired when it purchased a company called On2 hasn't exactly been a secret, and the company's finally made it official today as part of a new ...

If you have more than one computer–for instance, a desktop and a laptop–you may have encountered video files that run on one machine but not the other. That’s probably because of a codec conflict.

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 ...