Some apps are useful; others are essential. These are the ones I always install before anything else when I set up a new PC.

While tech giants kept building bloated media apps, a scrappy open-source project called VideoLan quietly ate their lunch by ...

Huawei has announced the FreeBuds SE 4 wireless earphones, which are the first in the SE lineup to offer active noise cancellation. The earbuds support multi-mode ANC with noise reduction of up to ...

Sonos is looking for a fresh start. After a very challenging 2024, the multi-room wireless speaker giant has a new CEO and, after entering the headphone market last year, is looking to expand into ...

Apple's AirPlay allows you to play content from an iPhone on your TV, but viewing your phone screen on a computer? That's a different story entirely. There are probably times when you don't want to be ...

While plenty of fantastic streaming services exist, everyone knows the pain of your favorite movie suddenly becoming unavailable. Owning your media solves this problem, but you'll need to choose a ...

test and verify the Reed-Solomon codec. Each of these steps is important, and missing one results in developing hardware that does not work the first time and must be re-created. For example, it is ...

iOS devices use a high-efficiency camera capture format for image and video content. If you have ever tried transferring pictures and video files from an iPhone or iPad to a Windows PC, you will see a ...

K-Lite Codec Pack (Full) is one of the most complete and up-to-date codec packages for both video and audio. Thanks to this package, you can play practically any movie or audio file you have stored ...

The Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, N/KN editions do not include Windows Media Player and other Windows Media-related technologies, such as Windows ...

This repository contains the source code for DM-Codec. As illustrated in Figure 1, DM-Codec introduces speech tokenization approaches using discrete acoustic, semantic, and contextual tokens. DM-Codec ...

Abstract: Learned Image Compression (LIC) has experienced rapid growth with the emergence of diverse frameworks. However, the variability in model design and training datasets poses a challenge for ...