eRightSoft has updated its freeware media-conversion utility SUPER to version 2012.50. SUPER 2012.50 adds a handful of new features, plus extends codec and container support to include a number of ...

This presentation explores the history of codecs, containers, and protocols and their impact on the present state of streaming. Learn what qt-faststart does, why h264_mp4toannexb is sometimes ...

Ogg (note the spelling) is just a container format, Vorbis is the audio codec. Ogg can contain other codecs apart from Vorbis and Vorbis can be delivered in other containers than Ogg. So speaking of ...

The world of video formats can be pretty confusing, but there are only a few things you really need to know. First, it's important to note that a video format is more than just its file extension.

Users of DaVinci Resolve (DR for short) have been asking for more output codecs and more control over the existing ones for years. While Blackmagic has added quite a few over time, you still don’t get ...

Premiere Pro can reject a video with "The file has an unsupported compression type" even though the filename ends in .mp4, .mov, or .avi and the clip ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

Once upon time, video codecs and formats were really only the concern of AV nerds, anime freaks and hardcore not-so-legal movie downloaders. Now, even the most part-time of geeks has to deal with them ...

A media container is a “wrapper” that contains video, audio and data elements, and can function as a file entity or as an encapsulation method for a live stream. Because container formats are now ...