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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has announced that it will add hardware acceleration support for the Aomedia Video 1 (AV1) video codec to Windows 10 this fall. AV1 is an open, royalty-free codec intended to provide ...

AMSTERDAM — Does the world need yet another video codec? BBC made a strong case that it does, at the International Broadcast Conference (IBC) this week, pitching a new compression family called Dirac ...

I tried capturing video once before, and I registered the free codec, but I registered it with an e-mail address which is now not reachable, the company went bellyup. I want to start doing it again ...

After running Microsoft’s MPEG-2 codec check utility on both machines it turned out I have 10 MPEG-2 decoders installed while he only has two, one of which isn’t on my list. Rather than trying to ...

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 ...