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How to Play H.265 Videos with Your Favorite Media Player

H.265 or High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the world’s fastest video encoder. It supports 25 to 50% data compression at the same video quality leading to a higher coding efficiency. Without a doubt, H.265 enjoys the attention of many, including online streaming artistes, gamers, and software developers. H.265 is aimed at higher resolution displays including 8K/4K and gives superb picture quality with no hazy output. Here we will learn how to play H.265 videos on your favorite media player. As it turns out, very few of them directly support this format. However, with a few tweaks, you can run H.265 videos without any trouble…. Read more

How to Play H.265 Videos with Your Favorite Media Player

H.265 or High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) is the world’s fastest video encoder. It supports 25 to 50% data compression at the same video quality leading to a higher coding efficiency. Without a doubt, H.265 enjoys the attention of many, including online streaming artistes, gamers, and software developers. H.265 is aimed at higher resolution displays including 8K/4K and gives superb picture quality with no hazy output. Here we will learn how to play H.265 videos on your favorite media player. As it turns out, very few of them directly support this format. However, with a few tweaks, you can run H.265 videos without any trouble…. Read more

How to Create the Perfect GIF in Photoshop

There are lots of quick-and-dirty ways to create a GIF on your PC, mainly using small dedicated apps designed for that purpose. But if a freeware app can do it, then Photoshop can probably do it better, and if you already have Photoshop on your computer, then there’s no need for you to install anything else if you want to create GIFs. Here we’ll show how to make GIFs in Photoshop – both out of a video file and out of a series of images that you can splice together into a GIF. Related: How to Create a GIF… Read more