Dolby sued Snap in U.S. and Brazil, claiming Snapchat's AV1 and HEVC codec use infringes patents, challenging AV1's long-assumed royalty-free status.

In a complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, Dolby accuses Snap of infringing four video compression patents through Snapchat's use ...

Streaming codec adoption used to be an engineering abstraction governed by RD curves, BD-rate tables, and roadmap slides that ...

The additions of these new licensors to the VDP Pool come as Access Advance releases a landmark independent study that reinforces the program's commitment to FRAND principles, underscoring for ...

In addition to Access Advance's Video Distribution Patent Pool, Sisvel's AV1 pool also administers intellectual property practiced by AV1 implementations. Other patent holders, including Nokia, have ...

It’s been 3-plus years since the MPEG codec explosion that brought us VVC, LCEVC, and EVC. Rather than breathlessly trumpet every single-digit quality improvement or design win, I’ll quickly get you ...

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, ...

Adopting a new codec standard is a complicated task. The timeline for getting up to speed is so long that once you’re there, the industry very well might be looking at the next generation of codecs ...

Known as H.264, among other designations, the new format is turning heads over claims that it can deliver DVD-quality broadcasts over the Internet using considerably fewer network resources than ...

Perian This is a popular codec pack for quicktime that includes support for DivX, XviD, FFMpeg, and numerous others. It is built solely for QuickTime, so you will not have to install another media ...

Protocol reports that Qualcomm will finally jump on the AV1 video codec bandwagon next year. AV1 is the web’s next open, royalty-free video codec, and widespread adoption will require hardware support ...