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 ...

With video continually rising in percentage of total internet traffic—with estimates as high as 80 percent—and more and resolutions rising to UHD and beyond, engineers are hard at work developing new ...

OK, I'll say it. As far as I know, this is the first time any study has compared the quality and performance of codecs representing Essential Video Coding (EVC), Versatile Video Coding (VVC), and Low ...

The starting gun has been fired on development of a new video codec beyond VVC with gains of at least 20% up to 50% claimed by R&D lab InterDigital. The target for H.267 is to deliver improved ...

The next-generations VVC/H.266 codec has been announced as a follow-up to H.265. Like the previous codecs, H.266 promises a significant reduction in size with no apparent quality loss. Versatile Video ...

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce streaming bottlenecks. Called ...

BEAVERTON, Ore.—Versatile Video Coding (VVC) promises to play a pivotal role in driving advancements in video compression technology, with organizations across the globe recognizing its potential to ...

It’s not that long ago that the video codec market was fairly simple with AVC (H.264) being in wide use, MPEG 2 still propping up SD broadcasting and a bubbling undercurrent of HEVC. For many today, ...

Replay: The newly announced VVC codec promises great things, but will it gain widespread adoption or become mired in licensing and royalty issues?Announcements of new video codecs are becoming almost ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitmovin, a world leader in online streaming video technology, announced today that it has incorporated H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC), the most ...

Fraunhofer has announced that it has released a new state-of-the-art video codec. The headline claim about its new H.266/VVC codec is that it presents users with the 'same visual quality' while ...

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