Google is ending support for the H.264 video codec in its Chrome web browser, preferring its own WebM format, writes David Fox. In future, its resources will be “directed towards completely open codec ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

H.264 is the closest we have to a universal codec, which is why it was surprising that in Bitmovin's "Video Developer Report 2021," H.264 usage actually dropped from 92% in 2020 to 83% in 2021 among ...

Android 16 adds support for running media codecs outside of their usual sandboxed process and within the app’s process. Doing this reduces the amount of inter-process communication that needs to ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

Google engineers have volunteered the company’s VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project, called WebRTC, that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. “We believe that ...

In context: The H.264 video compression standard, also known as AVC, has been around since 2003. Even though it's been superseded by newer codecs like H.265 and AV1, it remains the most popular option ...