Despite the unbridled enthusiasm among bloggers for Google's newly announced free WebM codec, a digital video expert has reviewed the new VP8 specification and delivered a severely deflating technical ...

Fortunately, Compressor can access QuickTime plug-ins such as the x264Encoder plug-in that you can download at MyCometG3. Note that the developer of the site, Takashi Mochizuki, discontinued ...

This week, Telestream announced the availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder, co-founded and managed by MulticoreWare Inc. I had a chance to speak with Telestream CTO Shawn Carnahan about ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MOSCOW: The Graphics and Media Lab at Moscow State University recently released the results of ...

Netflix released new details of its own streaming tests recently -- including a huge effort to determine whether x265 (HEVC), VP9, or x264 should be used for future projects. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Testing by Facebook engineers found that the Alliance for Open Media's new video codec, AV1, outperforms widely-used standards ...

A test conducted by the social media giant Facebook shows that the AV1 codec performs better than x264 and libvpx-vp9 codecs in most common real-world scenarios. The AV1 codec is a royalty-free and ...

I realize that these are fairly difficult codecs, and that a lot of mobile devices won't play them out of the box. I'm planning on picking up a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 8.0 in a few hours (when the ...