Have you ever seen the error, ‘Cannot play, Video codec not supported?’ What is a codec and why do we need it to play a video file? A codec is a software or hardware-based process which is used to ...

However, most media players do not support the FLV codec. Only a few media players like the VLC media player can play such file. Many users don’t prefer to install such media players since it could ...

This article first appeared in the August/September issue of Streaming Media magazine. Click here for your free subscription. If you work with video on the web, someone has undoubtedly asked you to ...

A once very popular video format on the Web from Adobe. Using the .FLV file extension, Flash videos are played with Adobe's latest Flash media player as well as other FLV players. A large amount of ...