A new tech blog from Netflix highlights the importance of the AV1 open video codec, which now powers about 30% of the platform’s streaming and discusses a variety of opportunities to expand its ...

A lot of people are in that category of Android lovers who develop a high loyalty for certain apps that they cannot live without. Well, the MX Player app is in this category too. This is one of the ...

The word Codec is an acronym of the words compressor and decompressor. Codecs are a program that compresses a video and later helps to decode it. So if you receive an ...

In a nutshell: Streaming and other demanding video applications are growing rapidly, and existing codecs are struggling to keep pace. Fortunately, AOMedia has pledged to finalize a new generation of ...

Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to ...

The arc of AV1 codec adoption for large-scale content owners has been long and complex, as Meta Senior Media Software Engineer David Ronca (who also spent 12 years developing encoding solutions at ...

4 VoIP Codecs to Try If G.711 Won’t Give You Clear Calls Your email has been sent Discover the best VoIP codecs beyond G.711 for clear calls. Learn about G.722, Opus, G.729, and AMR-WB to optimize ...

The iPhone-to-Android switching process is usually plain sailing, but it’s always smart to back up before you begin anything like this. Back up first, and you won’t lose anything you care about. For ...

Android 15 is coming later this year with a host of new features and enhancements. Google has already released a few Android 15 beta builds, revealing exciting things about the new OS. Unfortunately, ...

Tablets have occupied a place in our every day, digital lives for over a decade, but it's hard to argue the dominance of the iPad. In Q4 of 2023, Apple's tablet shipments represented 40% of worldwide ...

Krystle Vermes is a Boston-based news reporter for Android Police. She is a graduate of the Suffolk University journalism program, and has more than a decade of experience as a writer and editor in ...