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 ...

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 ...

In January, a new video codec called H.265 (also known as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) was approved by the ITU-T. This is significant for a couple of reasons: It needs only half the bit rate of ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. The Motion Pictures Expert Group (MPEG) has released a new draft which should see the release of a new video codec, H.265. The proposed High Efficiency ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While VP8, Google's initial attempt at a royalty-free video codec, failed to gain much traction, the search giant is now focusing its efforts on ultra-high-resolution 4K video with its new VP9 codec, ...

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