Google's VP9 video codec is getting a major boost today. While Mozilla, Google's own Chrome browser and a few video players like FFmpeg started supporting VP9 over the course of the last year, what ...

[Editor’s Note: Stewart Wolpin is not only a TWICE contributor but also an HEVC analyst for Digital Technology Consulting.] The question is, is this format war too inside-baseball for most CE ...

Unless you're a (video) camera freak, you may not know much about Red, a company that has made a string of innovations with its line of digital video cameras that capture 4K footage (i.e., 4096x2160 ...

German video codec developer Fraunhofer HHI has announced a new compression standard that promises to notably improve the efficiency of video streaming. For example, while H.265/HEVC requires 10GBs of ...

Fraunhofer, the German company that helped develop the H.264, H.265 and MP3 encoding formats, has unveiled a new video encoding standard that could severely reduce streaming bottlenecks. Called ...

According to the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), an organisation formed to define and develop media technologies to address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and ...