Over the next two or three years, streaming producers will be increasingly tasked with supplying optimized video streams to devices as disparate as cell phones and set-top boxes, along with different ...

Adding to the Company’s portfolio of open-standards UC initiatives, the Polycom-led open standards-based implementation of SVC is designed to help drive further adoption of video across businesses and ...

Scalable video coding, or SVC, may be just the latest example of the video conferencing industry's affinity for never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity. In this case we're talking about ...

At its 70th meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain last month, the Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) evaluated four competing technologies for the efficient coding of spatial audio. This technology has ...

Delivering high-quality video over a low quality IP network can be challenging. As described previously in this column, adding Forward Error Correction (FEC) data can ...

Scalable video transmission is an essential technology in modern multimedia communications, addressing the challenges posed by diverse channel conditions and bandwidth limitations. Contemporary ...

Video applications over the public Internet and corporate networks are gaining popularity. These, and other applications, including visual communications, are based on the transmission of video to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Freescale Semiconductor's embedded DSP targets scalable video coding (SVC) using a customizable H.264/SVC algorithm for its StarCore DSP. The chip maker said its design enables ...

I’ve been tracking Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for the last year or so, and there’s been little tangible evidence of adoption. Recently Toronto-based Seawell Networks came out of stealth mode, but ...

In this paper, the authors study real-time scalable video broadcast over wireless networks using Instantly Decodable Network Coding (IDNC). Such real-time scalable videos have hard deadline and impose ...