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 ...

It’s not that long ago that the video codec market was fairly simple with AVC (H.264) being in wide use, MPEG 2 still propping up SD broadcasting and a bubbling undercurrent of HEVC. For many today, ...

Codec licensing company Access Advance has introduced a new Video Distribution Patent (VDP) Pool covering internet streaming. The VDP includes the HEVC, AV1, VVC and VP9 codecs. The company already ...

The next-generations VVC/H.266 codec has been announced as a follow-up to H.265. Like the previous codecs, H.266 promises a significant reduction in size with no apparent quality loss. Versatile Video ...

The tech industry has been abuzz with chatter about AV1 encoding recently. There are bold claims about how it will revolutionize streaming video, game streaming, and the Internet at large—but what is ...

I think people mostly stopped caring after the DivX ;-) 3.11 codec back in 2000, I don't think there's been a huge popular demand for better compression since. Anything since that has mainly been ...

Adopting a new codec standard is a complicated task. The timeline for getting up to speed is so long that once you’re there, the industry very well might be looking at the next generation of codecs ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitmovin, a world leader in online streaming video technology, announced today that it has incorporated H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the most ...

Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...

One major concern I had with AV1 in my First Looks review was playback CPU requirements. For the most part, these were allayed. Figure 7 shows CPU requirements playing back 1080p video on the same ...