With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. Stephen Shankland ...

There's no denying the fact that VLC is one of the most widely used Windows media player around the globe. It is the first application that Windows users tend to download and install on their PCs to ...

If you are a movie buff and do not mind watching them on 15″ screen with headphones on, welcome to the world of Home Theatre. Although good, this experience can be bugged by a few shortfalls. For ...

Because video clips are made up of sequences of individual images, or “frames,” video compression algorithms share many concepts and techniques with still-image compression algorithms. Therefore, we ...

Are you wondering how to compress a video? It is often somewhat annoying to get notifications like “file too large” when uploading a video file on social media or any other media outlet. We all know ...