H.264 is the closest we have to a universal codec, which is why it was surprising that in Bitmovin's "Video Developer Report 2021," H.264 usage actually dropped from 92% in 2020 to 83% in 2021 among ...

H.264. HEVC. VP9. If these terms mean nothing to you, you’re not alone. Each is a kind of video codec. Though they’re responsible for every second of video we watch online or on a Blu-ray, most people ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

Google's settlement with MPEG-LA is a fresh development in a decades-old story of software patents. Will it finally open video codec technology to open source developers? When Google announced last ...

Replay: NVIDIA has released a demo of how it is using AI to revolutionise video conferencing. This is the future of video codecs. Called NVIDIA Maxine, the new AI system can not only cram high quality ...

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 ...

Ok I did a quick search but didn't see anything recent so here goes:<BR><BR>I have an .avi video that won't play back correctly. WM player seems to think it's a song that's 3 hours long.(It's actually ...

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, ...

Mozilla Foundation is considering adding support for the H.264 video codec in mobile versions of the Firefox browser, a move it has avoided up to now because H.264 is encumbered by patents. Mozilla’s ...