With VLC 2.1.1, VideoLAN continues to sidestep the software patent licensing minefield of video compression. Meanwhile, open-source allies put muscle behind the new Daala codec. Stephen Shankland ...

There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...

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 ...

If you have ever fiddled around with the camera settings on your smartphone, you must have come across a new video recording codec... Read More If you have ever fiddled around with the camera settings ...

A new report published by InterDigital suggests HEVC will become the leading codec to support high-quality streaming content. The report, written by Futuresource, looks at HEVC’s development, how it ...

What are “HEVC”, “AV1”, and “VVC”? The most mainstream video codec was MPEG-LA 's H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding). You can find out how AVC compresses movies by reading the following article. How ...

So despite the results shown in Table 1, it appears that if and when MainConcept implements dual-pass encoding, overall quality should be very close to x265. So let’s move to the next factor, encoding ...