On October 17, I moderated an event entitled the Battle of the Codecs: AV1 vs VVC, presented by Bitmovin as an adjunct to the Demuxed conference in San Francisco. I learned a lot about how many ...

VITEC recently announced its second-generation HEVC codec, which it calls GEN2, at the 2017 National Association of Broadcaster (NAB) Show in Las Vegas. Powering the company’s MGW Ace Encoder, the ...

Yesterday a new consortium called the Alliance for Open Media announced that it's working on creating a new royalty-free codec for internet-delivered video. Here are some thoughts on the ...

Microsoft has published unscheduled fixes for two vulnerabilities, one of them with a severity rating of critical, that make it possible for attackers to execute malicious code on computers running ...

The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. Stephen Shankland ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Right now, H.264/AVC is generally regarded as the king of codecs. It’s been on the hill since ...