So my grandfather has been tinkering with video editing for awhile now. He's given me a CD with a video on it. When I play the thing all I get is sound. When I open it in Windows Media player 9, I ...

Hey guys, anyone familiar with audio codecs, I am trying to watch an avi, but it has no sound. It came with codecs mpgaudio.ax, mmswitch.ax, and iviaudio.ax, but I don't know how to install or use it.

What is sound and how do we take the noise that comes from our mouths and turn it into something that can be transported across an IP network? I have never been happy with the answer "because." No ...

One of the problems with most technologies is that they are jargon filled, and if you don’t know the secret handshakes, you won’t be welcomed into the club. The field of communications is certainly ...

Smartphone manufacturers all but took away our beloved phones with headphone jacks. Now we’re left buying admittedly great wireless earbuds hand over fist. But listening to music is no longer a ...

With the rise in popularity of wireless headphones and earbuds, a lot of technical terms have come along with them. From wireless charging to Bluetooth multipoint, wear sensors, ANC and transparency, ...

Google's interest in the royalty-free Vorbis audio codec raises new possibilities for successors CELT and, in the longer run, Ghost. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get it? Here’s what to know. There’s a difference, of course, between “putting ...