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 ...

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, ...

MPC is long dead, like dead and buried and a forest has grown on the grave and been cut down and paved over with an asphalt parking lot, dead. I found MPC-BE, but I'm not sure if that's the fork to ...

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, ...

Codec licensing company Access Advance has introduced a new Video Distribution Patent (VDP) Pool covering internet streaming. The VDP includes the HEVC, AV1, VVC and VP9 codecs. The company already ...