Over the past few years — especially with the cost of data coming down significantly — the consumption of audio and video through various streaming services has been soaring at a rapid pace. As a ...

The new HEVC video compression standard has been widely anticipated, but commercial deployments are just coming to market. HEVC reduces video bit rate and bandwidth requirements by nearly half as ...

The recently ratified High Efficiency Video Coding standard should deliver up to 50% bitrate savings compared to H.264 for HD, and will work particularly well at higher resolutions and frame rates.

The Moving Picture Experts Group, otherwise called MPEG, announced a draft of a new video compression standard known as High Efficiency Video Coding, or H.265, that will be twice as efficient as the ...

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce streaming bottlenecks. Called ...

Few could argue that MPEG-2 has not been a workhorse of professional media compression. Created in 1988, it helped to power the commercial success of DVD disc players and is still used daily by U.S.

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 ...

You will hear a lot about codecs when it comes to 4k in the next few months, but the most important one of them all finally reaches an important milestone in January when HEVC hits the Final Draft ...

Our mobile devices wouldn’t be the same without video capabilities. What would life be like for us (or our kids) without YouTube, Tout, Facebook, and now Vine, with all of the advantages of easily ...

HP and Dell has disabled support for the High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard in some of their laptops, Ars Technica reports. HEVC is a codec that enables the compression of large videos into ...

TORONTO, Sept. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – ViXS Systems Inc. (TSX: VXS), a pioneer and leader in media processing silicon solutions, today announces its most advanced SoC solution for video devices in the ...