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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ittiam Systems, a leading provider of advanced video and visual analytics solutions, announced that it has licensed its i265 HEVC Codec to Microsoft Azure to ...

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 ...

There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE retailers and vendors to ...

If you own a Windows PC as well as a recent iPhone, the U.S. government wants you to open the Windows Store today and make sure that you have the most recent version of the HEVC video codec. The U.S.

Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...