A standards group completes its work on a compression technology called HEVC, or H.265, which promises to improve resolution, image quality, and color. Google's VP9 is waiting in the wings. A key to ...

Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

I’ve got a bad case of TLDR-itis, as in “too long, don’t want to write-itis”. You may be feeling the same way from a reader's perspective. If so, this article is for you. Lots going on in the codec ...

With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. VideoLAN’s VLC media ...

Bitmovin has announced Encoder Version 3, a new release that adds ultra-low-latency live streaming, new HEVC and AV1 codecs, pricing changes and a server that lets AI assistants query encoding … The ...

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Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware IPs, announces the immediate availability of HEVC Scalability Extension (a.k.a. SHVC) test suites to help ...

Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...