AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands — The battle between two competing next-generation video codecs — H.264 and Windows Media 9 — escalated this week during the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) here, ...

HEVC, or High-Efficiency Video Coding, is a video compression standard. It is also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2. It is a successor to AVC or H.264 or MPEG-4. HEVC maintains the same video quality ...

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 ...

On this month’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft issued a Security Advisory in which it detailed the steps it was taking to fix vulnerabilities in the Indeo codec, which compresses and decompresses video data ...

Microsoft is playing nicely with Google. At least, Microsoft is adding support for two Google-supported, open source video codecs: WebM and VP9. Both will be included in an upcoming update for the ...

QuickTime is a proprietary video format from Apple. It was supported on Windows till until recently Apple decided not to anymore. So how do you play QuickTime videos in Windows 11/10? There are a ...

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 ...

WAYNE, N.J. — Qualcomm has inked a licensing agreement with Microsoft, under which Qualcomm will integrate Microsoft's Windows Media Audio and Video codecs into its Qtv video decoder solution. Qtv is ...

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Following in the footsteps of Apple's ProRes RAW, Blackmagic Design has launched its own RAW video codec into a public beta. Blackmagic RAW "combines the quality and benefits of RAW with the ease of ...