With a goal of enabling portable design manufacturers to develop cost-efficient, high performance, and feature-rich audio solutions complete with power savings, Texas Instruments just unveiled the ...

Houston, Tex. — Texas Instruments Inc. has introduced the eXpressDSP Digital Media Software Standard (xDM), a low-level application programming interface (API) for DSP-based software, that provides a ...

The codec performs speech encoding/decoding independently on a frame-by-frame basis. Other features include a 32-kb/s encoded bit stream rate, frame size of 16 ms, an algorithmic delay of 20 ms, and ...

Bluetooth SIG announced the official release of Bluetooth LE Audio, which will allow audio companies to revert back to standardized practices rather than create proprietary audio codecs. The new Low ...

Ferncast will be a new name to many. It is a Germany-based codec developer founded by a name that might be familiar to some, Detlef Wiese, the founder of Mayah Communications. Weise provides ...

H.267 should be finalized between July and October 2028. If history holds, this means H.267 won’t see meaningful deployment until 2034–2036, long after I hang up my keyboard. Here's a brief ...

While much of the NAB talk about APT focused on the recent acquisition of its codec hardware business by the Audemat Group, the company’s licensing business is also very much still a presence. APTX ...

Protocol reports that Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec bandwagon next year. AV1 is the web's next open, royalty-free video codec, and widespread adoption will require hardware support ...

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, ...

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 ...