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 ...

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, ...

Various streaming services support AV1 playback, while Pixel 10 phones can capture AV1 videos, but AV2 just took a big step forward.

Allegro DVT, the leader in Semiconductor Video IPs and Video Compliance Tools, announces the availability its real-time AV2 Decoder IP integrated into its Pulsar™ D400 Series Multi-Standard Decoding ...

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, ...

The Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) recently released version 1.0.0 of the AV2 specification and reference code. The ...

AOMedia's AV2 codec cuts bitrate use by around 30%, improves streaming efficiency, but requires much greater decoding power.

Maintaining a Windows-based PC has, in most respects, gotten easier over the years. OS 'hackability' (the bad kind) has dropped, and Windows Update has become a terrific tool for minimal-intervention ...

Alliance for Open Media announced it will launch AV2 later this year, which should be a big upgrade for streaming video. The next-generation video codec is said to offer better compression, enhanced ...

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 ...