If you have plans to deliver 4K video when the UHD standard goes mainstream, a migration to HEVC is almost certainly in your future. But should you make the jump now with the HD video you're ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA.—Significant change is on the way for the entire broadcast ecosystem. In order to accommodate 4K/UHD transmissions, the way in which video is compressed for transport must improve ...

What are “HEVC”, “AV1”, and “VVC”? The most mainstream video codec was MPEG-LA 's H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding). You can find out how AVC compresses movies by reading the following article. How ...

Our mobile devices wouldn’t be the same without video capabilities. What would life be like for us (or our kids) without YouTube, Tout, Facebook, and now Vine, with all of the advantages of easily ...

[Editor's Note: Earlier this week, Tom Vaughan, the VP and GM for Video of MulticoreWare, made a proposal on behalf of x265 licensees to all HEVC patent holders. We're reprinting the proposal in full ...

Right now, H.264/AVC is generally regarded as the king of codecs. It’s been on the hill since around 2003, but Nokia has collaborated on a new codec that promises higher quality video at half the bit ...

Figure 1. HEVC divides video frames into a hierarchical quadtree coding structure that uses coding units, prediction units and transform units. CUs, TUs and PUs are grouped in a treelike structure, ...

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 ...

When it comes to very high-resolution video, researchers concluded that a new video compression technology is a big step up from today's prevailing H.264 standard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Apple's decision to adopt HEVC basically means two things - higher quality video and better compression rates. The HEVC standard enables a video to be compressed into a file that is about half the ...

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 ...