Microsoft has revealed a new Video Encode API for DirectX 12, allowing developers to take advantage of GPU acceleration to encode H264 and HEVC content. The feature is native in Windows 11 too.
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Intel's new graphics driver version 30.0.100.9955 adds support for DX12 video encoding for H.264 and H.265 on Windows 11. Aside from that, it fixes plenty of gaming-related and general bugs too.
Vimeo has announced support for AVIF images which offer comparable quality while lowering file size. This will improve page load times and bandwidth consumption on browsers which support it.
A new version of Microsoft's Azure Media Player has been made available. Version 2.0 brings a new skin, more plug-ins, a playback speed indicator, as well as accessibility improvements.