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 ...

The local choir that my kids are in is working on their latest concert DVD, and I was thinking about the best way to provide the content in higher quality. Assuming for a moment that they don't just ...

As you would suspect, not all encoding tools address these options the same way. For example, when encoding with the Apple H.264 codec, Apple Compressor only supports the Baseline and Main Profiles, ...

To make a long story short I need to mass convert some .264 files from a CCTV DVR unit to AVI's playing on any regular PC for our police department. My DVR's online software allows me to do this from ...

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, ...

Some servers don’t have an associated MIME type to support MP4 files. As such, they fail to play MP4 files. To correct this, you’ll need to configure the MP4 MIME type in IIS. This tutorial walks you ...

The word Codec is an acronym of the words compressor and decompressor. Codecs are a program that compresses a video and later helps to decode it. So if you receive an ...

WMP shipped with recent editions of Windows, and it can play anything with the proper DirectShow codec. It’s also a decent librarian. Alas, poor Winamp! We knew it well. One of our favorite audio and ...