Press enter or click to view image in full size The HEVC codec (High Efficiency Video Coding) is the successor to H.264/AVC, developed jointly by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware IPs, announces the immediate availability of HEVC Scalability Extension (a.k.a. SHVC) test suites to help ...

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 ...

Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 is drawing criticism now that tests have found it to use far more memory than the ...

Windows Media Player gets new features in Insider builds, but it still to open a video, uses 3x more RAM idle, and can't play ...

Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...