The increasingly competitive browser market has at last created an environment in which emerging Web standards can flourish. One of the harbingers of the open Web renaissance is HTML 5, the next major ...

This tool recursively searches a directory for video files using codecs that are considered less than state-of-the-art (anything other than AV1, HEVC/H.265, or H.264/AVC). It outputs a CSV with the ...

Ever since Google announced its purchase of video codec company On2 in August 2009, there’s been an expectation that On2’s VP8 codec would someday be open-sourced and promoted as a new, open option ...

BBC R&D has released the first version of the Turing codec, an open source software HEVC video encoder that allows highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity. The ...

A codec is an algorithm that compresses and decompresses audio and / or video. A video file is typically a container with multiple codecs. For example, a .mp4 file may use the H264 codec for video and ...

Digital video found its first big consumer market in DVD players, and has moved on from there. Now you can buy digital set-top boxes, camcorders, personal video recorders (PVRs), portable media ...

TikTok owner ByteDance confirmed on Wednesday that it is developing its own video codec chips to power its video recommendation services. The firm’s vice president, Yang Zhenyuan, confirmed recent ...