There’s a codec race underway between HEVC and AV1, and recent events are making it even more interesting. Today, HEVC, the incumbent codec, is supported by more than 2 billion devices including ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

Video compression is the critical enabler of all video streaming, and today we’re at a codec crossroads unlike any that we’ve experienced. Though H.264 remains firmly entrenched as the go-to codec for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and hardware IPs, announces the immediate availability of HEVC Scalability Extension (a.k.a. SHVC) test suites to help ...

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Up until now, iOS devices have captured video in the MPEG-4/H.264 format, and still photos in JPEG. But with iOS 11 (on recent hardware), Apple is breaking with tradition and switching to a new set of ...