The official AOMedia reference encoder for AV1 - the yardstick every other AV1 encoder is measured against, and by some distance the slowest of them.

Mozilla Firefox delivers independent, privacy-first browsing with Enhanced Tracking Protection, local AI-powered translation, and a commitment to keeping the web open and accessible for everyone.

The standard toolkit for rebuilding MKV files - merge, split, retag and extract tracks losslessly, because it rewrites the container and never the video.

Zoom Player is able to play almost any format you throw at it and its interface is extremely intuitive and easy to use.

Netflix VMAF is a tool used by streaming platforms like Netflix to measure video quality accurately.

dav1d is VideoLAN's free AV1 decoding library, the engine that gives players and filters their AV1 playback rather than a program you open.

MPC-BE is a lightweight Windows media player with its own built-in decoders, so most video formats play without extra codecs installed.

Opus is the codec that beats MP3 and AAC on quality per kilobit, and loses to both on what will actually play it.

VLC is the media player most people end up with once a video refuses to open in anything else.

Spotify delivers unlimited access to millions of songs, podcasts, and audiobooks through high-quality OGG Vorbis streaming.

dBpoweramp Music Converter is the paid all-rounder of the audio encoders category, pairing a multi-core format converter with an AccurateRip-verified CD ripper.

X Codec Pack 3.1 is a 64-bit codec pack for Windows 10 and 11 that installs a complete DirectShow playback stack in a single pass.