With the rise in popularity of wireless headphones and earbuds, a lot of technical terms have come along with them. From wireless charging to Bluetooth multipoint, wear sensors, ANC and transparency, ...

Have you ever overheard someone casually talking about their preferred audio codecs, or perhaps questioning the value of one model of wireless earbuds versus another because of the audio codecs they ...

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Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

For example, if you have both DivX and ffdshow installed, which one is used?<BR><BR>My questions:<BR>- How can you tell which codec is used if you have several that could do the job?<BR>- Can you ...

Radio World: What would you say is the most interesting recent trend in codecs? Tom Hartnett: By far, the inclusion of WebRTC clients in computer browsers. Essentially, every internet browser, desktop ...

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Codecs and containers are two of the most confusing bits of jargon that modern videomakers have to try and they their heads around. So what do they mean, and what do they do - and which do you choose?

So I'm using my shiny new holy-mother-mary-in-a-sidecar-with-a-lobster-bib-this-thing-is-fast MacBook Pro, but I've lost a lot of things on my old dead iBook. One of ...