An unofficial, but fully functional release of XBMC should make the uber-popular media center software work with almost all Android devices. About six months ago the developers of XBMC announced that ...

I'm in the design phase of building out a server for colocation, and one of the things that would be potentially useful on it would be hardware video transcoding. I don't want to use Intel, and ARM ...

Open source media player VLC is known as a Swiss Army knife of video players. It can handle pretty much any DRM-free video format you can throw at it, from WMV to MKV, with a little H.264, Xvid and ...

I discovered something interesting in the video encoding app Handbrake today. When you encode a video, you can select between several encode options. The most obvious choices are H.264 and H.265. The ...

If bandwidth and storage were infinite and free, there would be no need for video compression. However, bandwidth is always limited; the per-byte price of storage decreases over time but it's never ...

While the recent war of words between Adobe and Apple over the inclusion of Flash in the latter’s mobile devices is unlikely to reach a cease fire anytime soon, Apple giveth as well as taketh away.

In simple terms, Hardware Acceleration means using the computer’s hardware to perform a task faster than would be possible with software alone. This also allows for smooth rendering of graphics. In ...

[Aidan Lawrence] likes classic synthesized video game music in the same way that other people “like” breathing and eating. He spent a good deal of 2017 working on a line of devices based on the Yamaha ...