In 2020, the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) plans to launch three different codecs. To put that in perspective, there was a nine-year gap between MPEG-2 (1994) and H.264 (2003), and a ten-year ...

Here are the methods using which you can convert an MP4 video to HEVC on your Windows 11/10 PC: Use free MP4 to HEVC converter software to convert MP4 to HEVC offline. Convert MP4 to HEVC online using ...

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) was invented by a group of technology companies to be an open, royalty-free alternative to other video codecs, like HEVC/H.265. But a lawsuit that Dolby Laboratories Inc. filed ...

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 ...

If you plan to view pictures and videos from your mobile device on Windows 11, you will probably need to install the HEIF codecs. The High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container for images ...

“For VVC to capture market share among cellular device manufacturers, VVC’s royalty rates will have to be very attractive compared to the rates for AVC and AV1.” The Versatile Video Coding standard ...

You don’t notice good video compression—until it’s not there. For years, people have streamed high-resolution video without thinking about the tech behind it. But when companies clash over which ...

It’s not that long ago that the video codec market was fairly simple with AVC (H.264) being in wide use, MPEG 2 still propping up SD broadcasting and a bubbling undercurrent of HEVC. For many today, ...