If you stream music (and who doesn't these days) you've obviously come across abbreviations at the end of the audio files. The acronyms reading WAV, FLAC, MP3 and so on, are called audio codecs. You ...

Microsoft has published a new support page with details about codec support in Windows 10 and 11. For those unfamiliar, codecs are software bits that make it possible to play different audio and video ...

Part of Microsoft’s great big overhaul to Windows 10 finally includes some major changes to Bluetooth support and audio endpoints. These changes are now live in the latest Windows 10 Insider preview ...

A user in another forum I’m on wants to use a pair of Bluetooth headphones they are happy with for listening to music from their Windows PC. Their headphones are Sony and support pretty much ...

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 ...

Austin, Texas — SigmaTel, Inc. introduced three audio codecs — the STAC9200 2-channel codec for notebook computers, and the STAC9221 and STAC9220 8-channel high fidelity codecs for PC and convergent ...