Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

The case for moving from ubiquitous older video codecs like H.264 (AVC) to newer codecs like AV1 or HEVC (H.265) is typically expressed in terms of encoding efficiency that translates to bandwidth and ...

Windows 10 and 11 need paid packages to play some media formats. Graphics card may have a license to use HEVC, check in the Microsoft Store. VLC is free and open-source for playing various media ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

Mozilla Firefox has finally gained the ability to hardware accelerate HEVC or H.265 video codec on Windows, and more, with the latest release. Mozilla has released the latest stable version of Firefox ...