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, ...

This week, Telestream announced the availability of an open source H.265 (HEVC) encoder, co-founded and managed by MulticoreWare Inc. I had a chance to speak with Telestream CTO Shawn Carnahan about ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A handful of mobile chip makers–including ARM, MIPS, Nvidia and Texas Instruments–said they will support Google's move to establish V8, a video codec it acquired with On2 ...

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 ...

For years we’ve been asserting that the HEVC licensing structure is broken; now, it seems, the chairman and co-founder of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) agrees. In a remarkable blog post ...