One of the things that makes it possible to stream 4K Ultra HD video over the internet is video compression: it takes a lot of bandwidth to stream a 4K video, but it takes a lot less to stream a H.265 ...

Google has figured out how to make the most of its $134 million deal to acquire video compression specialist On2 - by giving away the crown jewels. According to an announcement by Sundar Pichai, the ...

In a bid to put an end to the all-too-familiar choppy, robotic voice calls that come with low bandwidth, Google is open-sourcing Lyra, a new audio codec that taps machine learning to produce ...

Streaming platforms and video services have long relied on open-source codecs like x264, x265, SVT-AV1, libaom, and libvp9, all readily available in FFmpeg. For many users, these codecs offer ...

The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), founded in 2015 by companies ranging from Amazon and Google through to Intel and Arm, has announced the launch of the AV1 video codec - which, it claims, offers ...

Intel has published an open source CPU-based encoder for the AV1 codec. The Scalable Video Technology AOMedia Video 1 (SVT-AV1) encoder supports Linux, macOS and Windows operating systems. SVT-AV1 ...

Google's apparent decision to open source the VP8 video codec will mostly be discussed today in terms of Google's ambitions, about Google TV, and about HTML5. (Image from CNET.) But there's another ...

The Turing codec is a fast encoder and decoder compliant with the H.265/HEVC standard and designed to provide high compression efficiency with low usage of computational resources. The codec was ...

The Dirac video Codec created by BBC R&D and co-developed since early 2004 with open-source programmers is set to remove one massive barrier to making available on the internet all BBC TV output – by ...

Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could increase the use of open-source video software. Mozilla is edging closer to releasing a new version of Firefox that could ...

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies said Tuesday it will release an open-source version of its video-compression technology, or codec. Video codecs are pieces of software that are used to ...

BBC R&D has released the first version of the Turing codec, an open source software HEVC video encoder that allows highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity. Due ...