Replay. When is the bitrate not the bitrate? Codecs are a compromise between quality and storage space used. Phil Rhodes explains why the bitrate on the spec sheet is not always what you'll get when ...

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 ...

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At IFA in Berlin, Qualcomm unveiled its latest Bluetooth audio codec for smartphones and headphones: aptX Adaptive. This isn’t the 24-bit/96kHz codec from Qualcomm that some have been clamoring for, ...

In a bid to put an end to the all-too-familiar choppy, robotic voice calls that come with low bandwidth, Google is open-sourcing Lyra, a new audio codec that taps machine learning to produce ...

I'm mostly interested in having the video with a high bitrate, and the presets are all around 1000kbps.<BR><BR>I'm giving another try now, using the 360 preset but upping the video bitrate from 2Mbps ...