ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Significant change is on the way for the entire broadcast ecosystem. In order to accommodate 4K/UHD transmissions, the way in which video is compressed for transport must improve ...

Now that we've looked at how to playback HEVC-encoded files, it's time to create them. There are a whole collection of tools and utilities that can encode HEVC, but in this article I'm going to focus ...

Grenoble, France , Jun. 09, 2016 – Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware video IPs, announces that it has taken more than 100 orders for its HEVC test ...

While few companies of any kind are actually making money from HEVC (H.265) today, the successor to H.264 will become increasingly important during the next 2–3 years, perhaps even earlier in some ...

At its June 2017 Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple announced support for HEVC playback in HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) delivered to iOS, MacOS, and tvOS end points. For many, this announcement ...

Testing AV1 and VVC After a year of work on a codec optimised for streaming, processing time appears to be dropping significantly. Video compression is an asset that the broadcast industry heavily ...

Media and device testing specialists, Eurofins Digital Testing (formally Digital TV Labs) has announced that they are building a complete test suite covering DVB-T2/HEVC and HbbTV for MEDIA BROADCAST ...

HEVC, also known as H.265, is the video codec that will allow large scale transferring of 4K video across networks. With broadcasters such as Netflix and Amazon are already beginning to offer 4K, it’s ...

Argon Design says it has created the industry’s first validation suite for the HEVC specification. HEVC/H.265 is a new video coding standard that will halve the bandwidth requirement for video and it ...

BBC R&D has released the first version of the Turing codec, an open source software HEVC video encoder that allows highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity. The ...