After 5 years of work and over 2700 commits against the reference software, the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) has ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

The draft specs of AV2, the codec that is set to replace the currrent AV1 codec, recently had its draft published online.

Previous iterations of the codec narrative have produced predictable outcomes with incremental efficiency gains, gradual ...

H.264. HEVC. VP9. If these terms mean nothing to you, you’re not alone. Each is a kind of video codec. Though they’re responsible for every second of video we watch online or on a Blu-ray, most people ...

Replay: NVIDIA has released a demo of how it is using AI to revolutionise video conferencing. This is the future of video codecs. Called NVIDIA Maxine, the new AI system can not only cram high quality ...

The DVB Project has published two new documents setting out the commercial requirements that will drive the organisation’s next phase of work on video codecs. The updates have been published ahead of ...

The recently released AV1 video codec works better than expected, according to Facebook engineers, after putting the new technology through a benchmark test that tried to mimic Facebook's real-life ...

[Editor’s Note: Stewart Wolpin is not only a TWICE contributor but also an HEVC analyst for Digital Technology Consulting.] The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE ...

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, ...

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 ...