While VP8, Google's initial attempt at a royalty-free video codec, failed to gain much traction, the search giant is now focusing its efforts on ultra-high-resolution 4K video with its new VP9 codec, ...

Google's VP8--a key part of WebRTC--just cleared a major patent hurdle and is poised to take over dominance of Internet codecs. There was a small amount of news last month that didn't get a lot of ...

Altera Corporation announced that a new Avaya Scopia videoconferencing system takes advantage of Altera’s powerful H.265 video codec solution, which is capable of handling full duplex encoding and ...

For the past two years, I’ve presented sessions at the Streaming Media East and West conferences comparing output from the x264 and x265 codecs to evaluate the health and readiness of HEVC/H.265 as ...

The next-generations VVC/H.266 codec has been announced as a follow-up to H.265. Like the previous codecs, H.266 promises a significant reduction in size with no apparent quality loss. Versatile Video ...