A new video codec has been made available for Video Streaming and Playback services to use over H.264 and H.265 or HEVC. This new codec is being called AV1. It is an open and royalty-free video coding ...

At times, you may have experienced issues where, when you have played a video on your Windows PC; the video may start to freeze or lag. Most of the time, such issues are caused by bad or corrupted ...

If you plan to view pictures and videos from your mobile device on Windows 11, you will probably need to install the HEIF codecs. The High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container for images ...

So despite the results shown in Table 1, it appears that if and when MainConcept implements dual-pass encoding, overall quality should be very close to x265. So let’s move to the next factor, encoding ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. VITEC has announced its second-generation HEVC codec (GEN2). Powering the company’s MGW Ace ...

On October 17, I moderated an event entitled the Battle of the Codecs: AV1 vs VVC, presented by Bitmovin as an adjunct to the Demuxed conference in San Francisco. I learned a lot about how many ...