Have you ever overheard someone casually talking about their preferred audio codecs, or perhaps questioning the value of one model of wireless earbuds versus another because of the audio codecs they ...

Radio World spoke to a sampling of technical leaders from around the world to find out what features they seek when choosing a codec, ways they implement the technology to improve broadcast quality, ...

With the rise in popularity of wireless headphones and earbuds, a lot of technical terms have come along with them. From wireless charging to Bluetooth multipoint, wear sensors, ANC and transparency, ...

Smartphone manufacturers all but took away our beloved phones with headphone jacks. Now we’re left buying admittedly great wireless earbuds hand over fist. But listening to music is no longer a ...

Amanda Hopp is chief engineer of Crawford Broadcasting’s four-station cluster in Denver. She is chair of the Denver SBE chapter and holds CBRE certification and an Amateur Extra radio license. Radio ...

You all know what codecs are, right? Chunks of software that encode digital data for transmission and/or storage and then decode it for use. It's an encode/decode cycle. We call it codec (for ...

It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

You might not be aware that your Bluetooth headphones support an array of codecs for streaming wireless audio. With the Android 11 Developer Preview, it’s now slightly easier to see just which codecs ...

I need a way to distrubute a product demo that can be played on Windows machines by restricted users under 2000 or XP. They're probably have WMP6 and associated codecs.<BR><BR>This is harder then it ...