Not only for viewing, video codecs are used in variety of ways. For example, in a remote desktop software. The software needs to send video of everything on one PC's desktop to another in a real time.

Mozilla, Opera (and Google) aren't the only ones supporting the open-sourced VP8 video codec in their browsers. Microsoft is going to do the same, as well, according to my tipsters. Update: It seems ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

Google has unveiled WebM, a royalty-free video codec, at its I/O conference in San Francisco Credit: Photo: Google The WebM codec is based on VP8, a web technology that Google acquired in February ...

I think people mostly stopped caring after the DivX ;-) 3.11 codec back in 2000, I don't think there's been a huge popular demand for better compression since. Anything since that has mainly been ...