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, ...

In addition to the financial burdens of HEVC licensing, the risk of lawsuits from patent holders can deter companies from seeking HEVC support. The space is crowded with pending and settled lawsuits, ...

As much as we love debating the pros and cons of new codecs like AV1, VVC, and LCEVC, independent premium-content publishers have largely ignored them. Take Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) founding ...

The High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) promises to reduce video file sizes while offering better quality than current video codecs used in many devices today. This is particularly important for ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, the electrical engineering and ...

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 ...

The takeaway: For years, the industry has touted AV1 as the codec capable of sidestepping the royalty and litigation thicket surrounding HEVC. Now, a new lawsuit from Dolby Laboratories against Snap ...

Has the author tested this? In my experience this was not the case - the HEVC video decode and encode IDs are re-written in the BIOS so the graphics driver can't use then. Buying the codec extension ...

BOSTON & SHENZHEN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC and Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd. (OPPO) today announced that OPPO has joined the VVC Advance Patent Pool as a ...