Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...

Microsoft has released a pair of security updates to address remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in Windows 10 1709 or later, and Windows Server 2019, distributions. More specifically the ...

A new video codec has been made available for Video Streaming and Playback services to use over H.264 and H.265 or HEVC. This new codec is being called AV1. It is an open and royalty-free video coding ...

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The long awaited release from Microsoft’s Windows Media Group, code named Corona, has finally appeared in a beta version. Now dubbed Windows Media 9 Series, it is the first comprehensive platform ...

The AV1 video codec created by the Alliance for Open Media promises big gains in video quality for a given bitrate. The new codec also delivers an open, royalty-free standard that the consortium hopes ...

Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile is a non-backwards compatible enhancement to WMV 9, focused primarily on much improved support for encoding content as interlaced, with other enhancements ...

Microsoft released security updates via the Microsoft Store last week, and it's confusing many users who want to make sure their devices are protected. When Microsoft releases security updates for ...