Desktop Video

Flash is a streaming video format created by Adobe, which compresses video so that it can be watched over a broadband Internet connection. To make your video available for streaming over the...

Online videos are great, but you need to be online to watch them. Unless, that is, you download them to your computer. If you can see it in a browser you can download it to your hard drive....

The RM file extension stands for "real media." It is used primarily by the Real Player software program. This program streams videos over the Internet that the user can watch directly. Files with...

Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11 is an advanced audio/video player compatible with the Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile and the Mac operating systems. This advanced version of media...

Quicktime is a great piece of software, albeit lacking in codec support. For those of you who just don't find VLC satisfactory, this short article will have you running just about everything in no...

If you would like to produce your own computer related how-to videos, you will need a screen capture program. Normally these can be quite expensive and difficult to learn. But CamStudio is a...

The container format AVI contains both audio and data packets, but being that the format is a container, the way the audio and video inside the container is processed can vary, depending on the...

It happens all too often. You have downloaded an AVI video you just can't wait to see, but when you try to play it, your player freezes up and tells you that you don't have the right codec to play...

Media Player Classic is a video software commonly included with the K-Lite Codec Pack. It plays a wide range of video files, but removing it requires more than clicking on an uninstall icon....

WMV is a desktop video format for Windows-based PCs. It is the native format for the Windows video player, Windows Media Player. Real Media is a digital video format played by the RealPlayer...

Real Media is a digital video format for use with the RealPlayer media player, from Real Networks. It has limited playability on many systems, and therefore conversion to a more common video...

Codec errors occur when you try to view a movie that was created using a method that your video player doesn't recognize. "Codec" stands for "Compressor-Decompressor." It uses software to compress...

Media Player 11 is a program that comes standard on all Windows XP and Windows Vista operating systems. In addition, you can purchase or download for other operating systems separately. Using this...

MP4 files are high quality video files that are compressed to take up much less space than in their raw format. Itunes and Quicktime both use mp4 video compression. Saving video files to this...

When you download a movie or video clip from the Internet, the first thing you are going to want to do with it is play it back. Playing back video on your computer is fairly easy, and you'll only...

Windows Media Player supports the Audio Video Interleave (AVI) file format, and should be able to play those files. However, if Windows Media Player does not recognize AVI files, the problem can...

If you have downloaded a foreign Divx movie and it contains a subtitle file, you would need to install VobSub in order to be able to view the subtitles in playback. Read on to learn how you...