The developers of Handbrake just announced the 0.10 update to their extremely popular and useful Open Source video transcoding product. Originally focused on ripping DVDs, the product now can be used ...

Orban/CRL released Opticodec-PC Streaming Encoder Version 2.0, describing it as a mid-cost “SE” standard edition that also adds features to the professional PE and light LE editions. All editions of ...

[I'm posting this here rather than in the A/V forum because I'm most interested in the iTunes settings required for getting good results, which includes using the built in Apple AAC encoder. I'm not ...

In conjunction with Wednesday’s release of iTunes 4.5, Apple has also posted an update to QuickTime, the company’s core audio and video media handling technology for both Mac OS and Windows. The new ...

From a technical perspective, sound is little more than continuous-time varying pressure waves, i.e. vibrations of air that our ear absorbs and our brain interprets. As such, sound can be ...

Due to some hard drive problems, I need to rip all my cds again. I'm planning on using 192 or 224 mp3s for this. I know I could use EAC+lame, but I like to use iTunes to organize my music. So just ...

Apple has changed the way AAC encoding works with iTunes 7.5 running under Leopard. Here's how things used to work. In (let's say) iTunes 7.1.1 with QuickTime 7.1.6 on Tiger, when you tell iTunes in ...

One of the biggest announcements made by Apple during the recent Macworld Expo was the news that, soon, all music sold by the iTunes Store will be free of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions.

ERLANGEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC audio codec, today announced that Netflix is now using the xHE-AAC audio codec. Netflix has licensed Fraunhofer’s ...

Following up on our earlier report about AAC encoding not giving the expected results in iTunes, it now appears (thanks to a helpful reader email) that this neither a bug in QuickTime nor a bug in ...

April 14, 2023-- Fraunhofer IIS, primary developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio codecs, and MainConcept, a leading provider of video and audio codecs, plugins, and applications to the production, ...