Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

HandBrake, the free and open-source video transcoder, has dropped its first major release of 2026 – with new professional encoders, MOV output container ...

Discrete cosine transform (DCT) based digital video coding standards such as MPEG and H.26x are becoming more widely adopted for multimedia applications. Since the standards differ in their format and ...

When XviD came on the scene, it was a pretty big deal for that reason, since you didn't need to resort to that, or to paid software (DivX), in order to encode relatively decent low-bitrate (in ...