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.

A recent paper from Friedrich-Alexander University benchmarks energy consumption and compression efficiency for six video codecs across software and hardware decoders. While the study uses VP9 as a ...

The developers of open source media center software XBMC have released a new build of XBMC 13 Gotham, sporting a few shiny new features including support for stereoscopic 3D video and for ...

Melbourne, Australia (February 1, 2019) – In yet another world first BirdDog () today announced the immediate availability of ultra-low latency NDI® Decoding in FPGA via a free firmware update for ...

Anecdotal user reports say that the new MacBooks are much more adept at playing Hi-Def video than the the previous generation MacBook Pro. The Aluminum MacBook's processor runs around 75% slower when ...

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), alias H.265, is the next generation video standard, currently being developed by the JCT-VC team. JCT-VC is a joint team between MPEG and VCEG. The finalized HEVC ...

On2 Technologies announced the release of the Hantro 8190 multi-format configurable hardware RTL video decoder. Offering mobile phone and device designers a highly optimized hardware decoder, the ...

I'll be finally upgrading my old battle worn riva TNT in a week or so for a geforce2 mx. And I want to know how hardware decoding will work. I have powerdvd at home right, and I run win2k. Will the ...

At IBC2004, Darim Vision demonstrated its MV410EXP, a combination H.264 and Windows Media 9 hardware decoder. The decoder is a companion to the MV401EXP encoder. Both are designed to work in H.264 or ...

Here lately, MSI has definitely been on the notebook kick. Day after day, we've seen new laptop after new laptop emerge to fit pretty much every budget and every wish list. Today, however, the company ...