Microsoft has finally jumped into the HTML5 video codec war by announcing that its next browser, Internet Explorer 9, will go with H.264 support not the open-source Theora. H.264 and Theora are video codecs which are competing with one another to be the standard codec used in HTML5. While Theora is an open-source format; H.264 [...]

You might have already heard about YouTube and Vimeo rolling out support for the new HTML5 video. What many does not know is that the video codec that they are using now is a proprietary one called H.264. You would think that if Google is supporting a format, it would become the standard. Not quite [...]

Using the Medibuntu repository you can install many useful softwares from a single source some of which include Acrobat Reader, Google Earth, IBM Java Runtime Environment, SUN Java Runtime Environment, Opera, Real Player and Skype and many proprietary codecs.

VideoLAN VLC Logo One player that doesn’t need any kind of introduction, a player that can play almost any media file, one that is Open-Source! Yes, VideoLAN project has finally released VLC 1.0.0 ‘Goldeneye’. Generally, to play some media formats, you would need to install a separate codec pack like K-Lite, but VLC eliminates the [...]

You have installed Windows 7. And you are not able to play your favourite music video. Or may be you are not getting good quality video and audio from the default install of Windows 7. Well, no worries. Codecs have always been a problem for most users at one time or the other. Be it [...]

↑ Grab this Headline Animator Remember Automatix? Yes the nifty little application that made installing additional softwares on the Ubuntu system a breeze. Here comes the same for Fedora 9, FedoMATIX (v0.1Beta). It currently works on the command line only, but supports more than 60 additional softwares/apps already. The next version, which is due release [...]