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 ...

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 ...

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You have to hand it to Google. It has made using YouTube on both ends an almost magical and painless experience. A YouTuber uploads a single video with nary a care in the world and everyone on the ...

The tech industry has been abuzz with chatter about AV1 encoding recently. There are bold claims about how it will revolutionize streaming video, game streaming, and the Internet at large—but what is ...

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 ...