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Yesterday a new consortium called the Alliance for Open Media announced that it's working on creating a new royalty-free codec for internet-delivered video. Here are some thoughts on the ...

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A standards group completes its work on a compression technology called HEVC, or H.265, which promises to improve resolution, image quality, and color. Google's VP9 is waiting in the wings. Stephen ...

Let’s start with a brief overview. HEVC/H.265 is the successor codec to AVC/H.264, and it’s designed to deliver two key benefits: equivalent quality to H.264 at approximately 50 percent the data rate, ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. Stephen Shankland ...

A Codec is a combination of Coder and Decoder, or Compressor and Decompressor, and it is software used to compress or decompress digital media files, such as songs or videos. To play OGG, Vorbis, and ...

Grenoble, Jan. 18, 2016 – Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware IPs, announces the immediate availability of HEVC Scalability Extension (a.k.a. SHVC) ...

In the recent WWDC keynote, Apple touted their new and improved codec, HEVC (H.265), claiming the same quality with half the file size, or better quality with the same size. OK, but the real question ...