The next-generation High Efficiency Video codec (HEVC), H.265, has hit a major public milestone thanks to the work of the developer MultiCoreWare. MCW is launching a new commercial open-source venture ...

What are H.265 and VP9? They are competing next generation video compression formats that claim to be twice as efficient as H.264, the current industry standard. They will be crucial in getting 4K ...

PORTLAND, ORE. –Elemental Technologies, supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, now supports for the high-efficiency video coding H.265 codec. With a flexible software-based ...

The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has officially announced the H.266/VVC, or Versatile Video Coding standard, which will eventually replace the existing H.265/HEVC codec. While improvements are ...

Altera Corporation announced that a new Avaya Scopia videoconferencing system takes advantage of Altera’s powerful H.265 video codec solution, which is capable of handling full duplex encoding and ...

VP9 support is growing while H.265 support is sparse. Better bandwidth efficiency may be one reason why. Last week we did our Kranky Geek WebRTC Show, which was successful. Google, in its session had ...

Texas Instruments has announced an H.265 codec implementation optimized for its TMS320C6678 KeyStone-based multicore DSP. Intended for parallel processing applications, the H.265 standard is the ...

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The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute recently announced the new h.266 standard for video compression. The new codec promises video quality equivalent to H.265, but at half the bit rate. According ...

While Apple's new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus have drawn attention for their new form factors and flashy Retina HD displays, the handsets boast substantial under-the-hood advancements, including support for ...