In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from ...

It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

Moving studio-grade audio from point to point is much simpler thanks to browser-based programs that use the open source Opus codec. One such modality is ipDTL from the U.K.’s In:Quality, which I’ve ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

Today I focus narrowly on Versatile Video Coding (VVC) and it's potential for commercial success. For additional background, take a look at my article, How to predict codec success--I identified nine ...

Service providers must optimize three compression variables simultaneously: video quality, bitrate efficiency/processing power and latency ...