The final specification of the upcoming AV1 video codec has been finalized and published, it was announced by the Alliance for Open Media with partners like Google, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon and ...

Not only for viewing, video codecs are used in variety of ways. For example, in a remote desktop software. The software needs to send video of everything on one PC's desktop to another in a real time.

The MPEG Licensing Authority has indefinitely extended the royalty-free Internet broadcasting licensing of its H.264 video codec to end users. The move erases a key advantage of Google’s WebM rival ...

Over the past few years H.264 has become a de facto standard for delivering high-quality videos with relatively small file sizes. It’s proven a popular format for delivering internet video and many of ...

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 ...

Google has unveiled WebM, a royalty-free video codec, at its I/O conference in San Francisco Credit: Photo: Google The WebM codec is based on VP8, a web technology that Google acquired in February ...

At its annual I/O conference, Google has unveiled its plan to release a video codec it acquired as a royalty free alternative to the ISO MPEG's H.264. Google was joined by Mozilla and Opera as browser ...

While VP8, Google's initial attempt at a royalty-free video codec, failed to gain much traction, the search giant is now focusing its efforts on ultra-high-resolution 4K video with its new VP9 codec, ...