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 ...

It so happens that one page of my website will be for viewing movies served via Progressive streaming ( httpd ) and Real-Time streaming ( QTSS ). At first, I wasn't going to worry myself about ...

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-Rate tables, and road map slides that no one outside of R&D ever considered. Over the last 15 months, codec ...

The reason physical media is a better choice.

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed ...

As UHD, HDR, live sports streaming, immersive audio and even 8K experimentation move into the mainstream, encoding has become a core business strategy. Broadcasters and streaming providers must ...