Google’s Chromium team is rolling out support for Windows 11’s Direct3D 12 (D3D12) video encoding path to Chrome and Microsoft Edge, a change that shifts real‑time video encoding for browser-based calls and screen sharing from the CPU to the GPU — promising smoother video, lower CPU utilization...
YouTube will stream tonight’s Kansas City Chiefs–Los Angeles Chargers game from São Paulo — yes — but it will not be delivered in native 4K/UHD; the live feed is being offered as a high‑quality 1080p HD stream rather than a 4K broadcast.
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This Week 1 matchup from Arena...
FFmpeg 8.0 is out — a landmark upgrade that folds OpenAI’s Whisper transcription into the filter chain, expands Vulkan-based video processing across encoders and decoders, and modernizes the build and optimization stack with broad CPU and GPU-focused improvements.
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FFmpeg remains the...
FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman" lands as a sweeping, technically ambitious release that folds AI transcription, broad Vulkan compute support, dozens of native decoders, and notable hardware-acceleration improvements into the project’s core — a release the developers call one of their largest to date and...
A high-severity heap buffer overflow in the AV1 codec library libaom — tracked as CVE-2025-8879 — has been fixed in the latest Chromium builds; Google pushed the patch in Chrome stable channel updates to versions 139.0.7258.127/.128 (Windows and macOS) and 139.0.7258.127 (Linux), and browser...
When attempting to play a video or audio file on Windows 11 and encountering the error message "Missing codec. Choose something else to play. This item is in a format we don’t support. 0xc004f011," users may feel frustrated or confused about what steps to take next. This error typically appears...
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