One of the more prominent codecs is Xvid, an open-source MPEG-4 video codec that has gained a reputation (at least afaik) for possessing high compression and being widely supported. But downloading ...

In the old days, the codec pack for movie playback was badly behaved, and on the contrary there was something like going to be stupid because the movie that was playable until now can not be played ...

The build script will try to automatically locate your NVIDIA Video Codec SDK installation. You can help it by setting the environment variable NVIDIA_VIDEO_CODEC_SDK_PATH to the directory containing ...

A new video codec has been made available for Video Streaming and Playback services to use over H.264 and H.265 or HEVC. This new codec is being called AV1. It is an open and royalty-free video coding ...

The new H.266 video codec is a pretty big deal. You can’t play with it yet—tempted as you might be to go install Handbrake and bask in video encodes that are half ...

Perian This is a popular codec pack for quicktime that includes support for DivX, XviD, FFMpeg, and numerous others. It is built solely for QuickTime, so you will not have to install another media ...