You are correct that video and audio codecs are implemented in both hardware and software. As with other forms of technology, understanding the differences can improve your ability to select the form ...

TiVo has slowly been expanding the scope of its service to include the commonly available content the Internet has to offer. Last week, the company finally announced support for YouTube content, and ...

One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17. Google plans to finish defining its VP9 video codec on ...

A free Radio World ebook explores “Trends in Codecs 2024.” Hartmut Foerster is audio codec specialist and product manager for WorldCast Systems. He has 25 years of experience in this area, from the ...

Intel has agreed to purchase roughly 190 patents, 170 patent applications and next generation video codec software from RealNetworks for $120 million. The buy isn't expected to have any material ...

Codec maker Tieline has announced an update to the software for its Merlin family of codecs. Software v. 2.6.22 is now available for the Merlin, Merlin Plus and Merlin Plus WheatNet-IP codecs. This ...

Linux is famous for its open-source nature, but sometimes you just need to use proprietary drivers or codecs. Here's how to do so on many of the top Linux distros. A typical Linux system is largely ...

Today ARC will announce a family of silicon intellectual property (IP) cores—the VRaptor family–for implementing multi-standard video CoDecs. Given that ARC is primarily a RISC processor IP vendor, ...

Just as editing systems migrated from hardware-based, linear affairs built around tape decks and custom hardware and control surfaces, the modern video server is evolving quickly away from the ...