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 ...

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

H.264 is the closest we have to a universal codec, which is why it was surprising that in Bitmovin's "Video Developer Report 2021," H.264 usage actually dropped from 92% in 2020 to 83% in 2021 among ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE retailers and vendors to ...

If bandwidth and storage were infinite and free, there would be no need for video compression. However, bandwidth is always limited; the per-byte price of storage decreases over time but it's never ...

The recently released AV1 video codec works better than expected, according to Facebook engineers, after putting the new technology through a benchmark test that tried to mimic Facebook's real-life ...

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 ...

Windows 11 and 10 users right now may be unable to record, playback, or capture videos at the moment, when using the WVC1 codec. Microsoft has confirmed it is a known issue and recommends a rollback.

U.K. researcher Rethink TV predicts that the valuation of the rapidly evolving market for advanced video codecs in the media and entertainment market will reach $2.4 billion by 2030, driven by ...