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 ...

Microsoft has announced that graphics processor partners Intel, AMD and Nvidia are bringing hardware-accelerated AV1/AVIF video compression to new Windows 10 systems this fall. Unfortunately, these ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VideoProc, the easy and 4K-capable video processing software developed by Digiarty Software, has updated to Version 3.6 lately, with the new inclusion of AV1 decoder ...

In a recent development, Android system development manager Arif Dikici confirmed that the Play System update released in March 2024 has switched to VideoLAN’s open-source libdav1d codec, thereby ...

The CPU wars have a new front you’ve probably never thought about: CODECs. That is, the competition to set a format standard for compressing and decoding Internet video. The future of all things ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VideoProc, the easy and 4K-capable video processing software developed by Digiarty Software, has updated to Version 3.6 lately, with the new inclusion of AV1 decoder ...

I think people mostly stopped caring after the DivX ;-) 3.11 codec back in 2000, I don't think there's been a huge popular demand for better compression since. Anything since that has mainly been ...

MediaTek is pretty aware of the crescent demand for high-quality video streaming from smartphones. For that reason, the company announced that its high-end 5G SoC the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G will ...

MediaTek has announced it will enable YouTube video streams using the cutting-edge AV1 video codec on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G SoC. The MediaTek Dimensity 1000 is the world’s first smartphone ...

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, ...

HSINCHU, Taiwan, April 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaTek has announced it will enable YouTube video streams using the cutting-edge AV1 video codec on the MediaTek Dimensity 1000 5G SoC. The MediaTek ...

Next-gen phones powered by the Snapdragon 888 won't benefit from AV1's data savings or better video resolution. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...