Over the past few years — especially with the cost of data coming down significantly — the consumption of audio and video through various streaming services has been soaring at a rapid pace. As a ...

No longer confined to watching video on a tethered TV set, consumers have an insatiable appetite for video and they want it anytime, anywhere and on any device. Video traffic has grown tremendously ...

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce streaming bottlenecks. Called ...

The case for moving from ubiquitous older video codecs like H.264 (AVC) to newer codecs like AV1 or HEVC (H.265) is typically expressed in terms of encoding efficiency that translates to bandwidth and ...

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. Stephen Shankland ...

You will hear a lot about codecs when it comes to 4k in the next few months, but the most important one of them all finally reaches an important milestone in January when HEVC hits the Final Draft ...

TORONTO, Sept. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – ViXS Systems Inc. (TSX: VXS), a pioneer and leader in media processing silicon solutions, today announces its most advanced SoC solution for video devices in the ...

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HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) will revolutionize delivery of TV services to all types of devices including smartphones and tablets, according to Ericsson, which will launch what it says will be ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Released on Tuesday, Google’s new browser update Chrome 107 officially supports high-efficiency ...