Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

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 ...

This post explains how to convert files to RAR format in Windows 11/10. Microsoft has recently announced that users of Windows 11 will soon get native support for RAR files and several other archive ...

There are dozens of file formats for word processing documents, database files, graphics, spreadsheets and so on. If a file was created in one application and you want to use it in another, you can ...

ANSI and UTF-8 are two types of text encoding. The former is the default encoding that is used when you save text files created in Notepad, the text editor included in the Windows operating system.

For iOS 16 and later, Apple has introduced a macOS feature in the Files app that allows you to convert file formats on your iPhone without needing any third-party apps. If you often download or ...

A High Efficiency Image Container or HEIC file is an image format that's usually used by Apple devices. It's a useful image format because it's considered to be both more compact in size and better ...

If you’ve encountered Apple HEIC files and are unsure how to open them on your Microsoft Windows computer or convert them to JPEG format, this guide is for you. HEIC files are a type of image file ...

We all have run into a situation where we need a document in PDF format but we often have that file as an image in JPG format or as a document in word format. Sharing files in PDF format is ...