Tag: codec
Apple Lossless Audio Codec now open source
Apple has released the Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) into the wild today by making the codec open source and giving it an Apache license....
H.264 to remain royalty free
On Thursday, MPEG LA announced that its AVC Patent Portfolio License, the license that allows for usage of the AVC/H.264 video encoding standard, would remain...
iTunes Offers a High Efficiency Audio Codec
Keep it efficient! Included in iTunes 9 is the ability to encode audio using High Efficiency AAC. This is a special audio codec that allows...
A Beginner’s Guide to Video: Part One
Complexity is an unfortunate byproduct of technology. Many substantial innovations we have seen in the last hundred or so years are very hard to understand on the surface. The process of compression is incredibly hard to understand in full unless you feel like studying volumes upon volumes of specifications for codecs (Compressor/Decompressors). Luckily, we don’t have to understand the intricacies of compression to use it handily. Before I continue further about compression, there are some important highlights about video sources that I need to touch on.
Presto Change-O! Audio Codec Changes on the Fly
Ever had the need to quickly convert one of your AAC audio files to another format? I was asked today for a down and dirty...