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 ...

It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

From now on, any video you upload to YouTube will be transcoded into Google’s WebM codec, joining the “videos that make up 99% of views on the site or nearly 30% of all videos.” Google explains it to ...

Adopting a new codec standard is a complicated task. The timeline for getting up to speed is so long that once you’re there, the industry very well might be looking at the next generation of codecs ...

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

Patents management company MPEG LA announced agreements with Google, granting the Internet giant a license to techniques that may be essential to the VP8 video codec that the Internet giant backs. VP8 ...

Describing it as “the future,” Mozilla has been showing off ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to the industry-standard H.264 that can be decoded entirely in JavaScript. ORBX.js was developed ...

The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major ...

The recently released AV1 video codec works better than expected, according to Facebook engineers, after putting the new technology through a benchmark test that tried to mimic Facebook's real-life ...