There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...

The technology, also called H.265 and the successor to H.264, promises to double video quality for better streaming and higher-res TV. But it'll come with a patent burden, too. One aspect of of HEVC ...

Video is the Internet. The networking giant Cisco estimates it consumed about 70 percent of all online traffic in 2014, and that share will rise to between 80 and 90 percent by 2018. The ...

A standards group completes its work on a compression technology called HEVC, or H.265, which promises to improve resolution, image quality, and color. Google's VP9 is waiting in the wings. A key to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE retailers and vendors to ...

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 ...

What are “HEVC”, “AV1”, and “VVC”? The most mainstream video codec was MPEG-LA 's H.264/AVC (Advanced Video Coding). You can find out how AVC compresses movies by reading the following article. How ...

Jeff's favorite screen cleaning cloth that polishes to a shine. Today H.265 enjoys widespread use on Apple devices like the iPhone, as it’s the default codec used by video capture within the stock ...