Neowin News Feed for: Codec

BetterMediaInfo 0.8.0

Razvan Serea — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:01 +0000

Modern, user-friendly GUI for MediaInfo, offering detailed audio and video file analysis. It enhances readability, supports drag-and-drop, and runs cross-platform for effortless media inspection. Read more...

MediaInfo 26.01

Razvan Serea — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:16:01 +0000

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video/audio files. MediaInfo provides details about a both video and audio details, including tag information. Read more...

LAV Filters 0.81.0

Razvan Serea — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:50:01 +0000

LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. Read more...

BetterMediaInfo 0.7.0

Razvan Serea — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:00:01 +0000

MediaInfo 25.10

Razvan Serea — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:26:01 +0000

BetterMediaInfo 0.6.0

Razvan Serea — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:03:29 +0000

MediaInfo 25.09

Razvan Serea — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:30:21 +0000

SmoothVideo Project (SVP) 4.7.302

Razvan Serea — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:50:01 +0000

Watch any video on your PC file with frame interpolation. SVP increases frame rate by generating intermediate animation frames between existing ones to produce very smooth, fluid and clear motion. Read more...

MediaInfo 25.07

Razvan Serea — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:48:02 +0000

LAV Filters 0.80.0

Razvan Serea — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 11:28:02 +0000

LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. Read more...

BetterMediaInfo is a user-friendly MediaInfo viewer for Windows

Razvan Serea — Sat, 10 May 2025 04:00:01 +0000

MediaInfo 25.04

Razvan Serea — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:44:01 +0000

MediaInfo 25.03

Razvan Serea — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:02:01 +0000

AMD 9070 XT brings higher quality encode, and video playback performance improvements

Sayan Sen — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:00:30 +0000

AMD is finally promising high quality image output with the new encoder of its RDNA 4 based RX 9070 XT GPU. Read more...

MediaInfo 24.12

Razvan Serea — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:04:01 +0000

MediaInfo 24.11.1

Razvan Serea — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 20:36:01 +0000

MediaInfo 24.06.0

Razvan Serea — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:34:01 +0000

MediaInfo 24.05.1

Razvan Serea — Fri, 31 May 2024 20:00:01 +0000

MediaInfo 24.04

Razvan Serea — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:00:02 +0000

MediaInfo 24.03

Razvan Serea — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:50:02 +0000

MediaInfo 24.01.1

Razvan Serea — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 19:46:10 +0000

MediaInfo 23.11.1

Razvan Serea — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:38:02 +0000

MediaInfo 23.10

Razvan Serea — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 22:00:01 +0000

MediaInfo 23.09

Razvan Serea — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:32:01 +0000

Microsoft confirms video codec issue on Windows 10 (KB5028244) and Windows 11 (KB5027303)

Sayan Sen — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:08:02 +0000

Windows 11 and 10 users right now may be unable to record, playback, or capture videos at the moment, when using the WVC1 codec. Microsoft has confirmed it is a known issue and recommends a rollback. Read more...

AMD acknowledges it couldn't really fix high idle power draw with latest Windows WHQL driver

Sayan Sen — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 06:14:01 +0000

AMD's latest driver fixes a bunch of issues like Anti-Lag stuttering, memory leak problem with ReLive Instant Replay, audio issues with H.264 and H.265, and more. High idle power draw though, remains. Read more...

Upgrade to DivX 10.10: Now includes free AC3 Audio

Razvan Serea — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:24:02 +0000

Play, create and stream high-quality Divx video, including HEVC at up to 4K resolutions. Also, AC3 audio is now included in free DivX Software for Windows - no need to purchase a plug-in! Read more...

MediaInfo 23.07

Razvan Serea — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 20:22:01 +0000

MediaInfo 23.06

Razvan Serea — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 08:34:01 +0000

As AV1 is still slowly taking off, experimental support for next gen AV2 lands

Sayan Sen — Fri, 05 May 2023 18:12:01 +0000

The AV1 codec was released back in 2018 and even today, the technology is slowly being adopted. Over five years later, AOMedia has now started to add experimental support for the succeeding AV2. Read more...

MediaInfo 23.04

Razvan Serea — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:18:01 +0000

MediaInfo 23.03

Razvan Serea — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:28:01 +0000

LAV Filters 0.77.2

Razvan Serea — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 19:04:01 +0000

LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. Read more...

MediaInfo 22.12

Razvan Serea — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:00:01 +0000

LAV Filters 0.77

Razvan Serea — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:10:01 +0000

LAV Filters are a set of open-source DirectShow filters, aimed to eventually replace the better part of the playback chain required to play all and any modern media. Read more...

MediaInfo 22.09

Razvan Serea — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 19:44:01 +0000

DivX 10.8.10

Razvan Serea — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:46:01 +0000

Play, create and stream high-quality Divx video, including HEVC at up to 4K resolutions. Read more...

MediaInfo 22.06

Razvan Serea — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:58:01 +0000

Android devices with Security Patch older than Dec 2021 remain vulnerable to security risk

Alap Naik Desai — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 20:40:01 +0000

Nearly all Android smartphones and devices packing MediaTek or Qualcomm with a Security Patch dated prior to December 2021 remain vulnerable to an RCE security bug that can allow eavesdropping. Read more...

MediaInfo 22.03

Razvan Serea — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 09:16:01 +0000