ORLANDO, Fla.—“All I need is a QuickTime file.” How many times have you heard this from a client? Unfortunately, that’s not enough information. Here are the reasons why. Digital files consist of ...

Figured out the problem. The video was shot with a Logitech digicam/webcam device and was in an uncompressed format. I could see it fine because I have the Logitech software installed. No one else ...

Want to know how to play a weird video file on your Mac? Don’t worry – there’s probably a simple solution. There are dozens of video file formats, with more being added all the time, and it’s ...

If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

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Once you go out of WinRAR and try something else, you would immediately notice how dated the tool has been. This realization hit me when I switched to a modern open-source alternative that made me ...

Does anyone know where/what/which files are related to the absolute orginal .avi codecs that comes installed with a brand new install of winXP? I think i've corrupted something on my computer and am ...