For preservation, file formats matter just as much as the storage medium.

Microsoft on Monday will announce that its crowning digital media technology, code-named Corona, officially will be called Windows Media 9 Series. Windows Media 9 is seen as an important technology ...

Where is the best place to file metadata about a multimedia file, such as a video or photograph? Why not on the file itself? This is the approach that the Navy Video News Service is taking by ...

Many of the resources referenced are no longer available, and links to them have been removed. Provide accessible multimedia in e-books. Most e-book formats can accommodate multimedia in some manner, ...

As explained above, WebM media file format is supported by a majority of web browsers, you can play a WebM file in your web browser in the following two ways: By selecting the web browser from ...

Why it matters: VLC is universally regarded as one of the best (if not the best) media players available today. A new version released a couple of days ago brings further improvements for the ...

In a previous article on the need for standardization in haptics, we reviewed the different standards organizations that would be ideal forums for haptic standards. In this article, we take a deeper ...