As much as we love debating the pros and cons of new codecs like AV1, VVC, and LCEVC, independent premium-content publishers have largely ignored them. Take Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) founding ...

Apple claims its new and improved codec delivers the same quality with half the file size, or better quality with the same size. OK, but the real question is, should you care? Only sometimes. In the ...

HEVC, or High-Efficiency Video Coding, is a video compression standard. It is also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2. It is a successor to AVC or H.264 or MPEG-4. HEVC maintains the same video quality ...

Some Dell and HP laptop owners have been befuddled by their machines’ inability to play HEVC/H.265 content in web browsers, despite their machines’ processors having integrated decoding support.

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 ...

New codecs are on their way, making for much more efficient delivery of the latest high resolution video formats. This is an interesting time for video codec development as several new ones are moving ...

The pressure to optimize delivery of video at ever higher bitrates is growing such that the traditional once-in-a-decade leap in compression standards is on the verge of disintegrating. It’s not that ...

H.264. HEVC. VP9. If these terms mean nothing to you, you’re not alone. Each is a kind of video codec. Though they’re responsible for every second of video we watch online or on a Blu-ray, most people ...

Mozilla Firefox has finally gained the ability to hardware accelerate HEVC or H.265 video codec on Windows, and more, with the latest release. Mozilla has released the latest stable version of Firefox ...

BOSTON, January 27, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Access Advance LLC today announced that the Licensors of HEVC Advance have approved an extension of the deadline for new Licensees to secure current royalty ...

In the ever-evolving world of technology and video capture and formats, new standards often appear to enhance our digital lives. A good example of this is the high-performance file formats and codecs ...