It depends on the media player you use. If you are using BsPlayer/Zoomplayer, for instance, you can see which codecs are being used by seeing the filter properties (in ZoomPlayer, its in the context ...

ORLANDO, Fla.—“All I need is a QuickTime file.” How many times have you heard this from a client? Unfortunately, that’s not enough information. Here are the reasons why. Digital files consist of ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

DivX is one of the most commonly used codecs for video content on the computer today. It's very popular for use in making large video files from DVDs, something anyone that has created a media machine ...