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 ...

Where it might take giant corporations years to come to a conclusion on a major standards change, pirates from the video scene lead to an implementation in a matter of days, a source tells ...

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 ...

You’d never guess it, but some hackers care about quality and consensus building Earlier this year, various piracy groups sat down in the digital equivalent of Tortuga to discuss the finer points 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 ...

Streaming platforms and video services have long relied on open-source codecs like x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libaom, and libvp9, all readily available in FFmpeg. For many users, these codecs offer ...