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 ...
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 ...
What codecs do is compress and decompress digital media files. However, if you can’t play videos on VLC, this may be because your computer is missing an audio or a video codec. To check which ones are ...