Few video producers ever would have guessed that the term codec would become a household term, but with so many codecs on the market, average computer users have little choice but to be painfully ...

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, ...

Herzeliya Israel, May 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA Corporation announced today the release of Video Codec SDK 12.1, including new APIs to support Beamr Imaging Ltd.'s (NASDAQ: BMR) Content ...

LONDON—The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published V-Nova’s VC-6 video codec as the SMPTE ST-2117 standard, the company announced today. Ratification of VC-6 as a SMPTE ...

One of the biggest video sites on the Net will use Google's next-generation video compression technology after it's fully defined on June 17. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

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 ...

U.K. researcher Rethink TV predicts that the valuation of the rapidly evolving market for advanced video codecs in the media and entertainment market will reach $2.4 billion by 2030, driven by ...

YouTube is a wonderful place, whether you’re looking for an instructional video to help you put up some shelves, or just settling down to enjoy some laughs with your favorite online personality, it’s ...

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