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 ...
If you plan to view pictures and videos from your mobile device on Windows 11, you will probably need to install the HEIF codecs. The High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container for images ...
Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...
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 ...
From my perspective, one of the most useful and credible codec analyses comes from Moscow State University, which just published its 2019 Video Codec Comparison. This essential resource includes ...
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 ...